On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Chris AtLee <cat...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Right now we've got debug OSX builds in the cloud on Try in parallel with
> the regular builds. There's a bunch more work to be done there to be able
> to switch over, but we're definitely making progress.
>
> All Windows / OSX unit tests are currently done on our own infra. Q Fortier
> is working on getting Windows unittests stood up in AWS, and the results
> are very promising. I'm not sure when we'll be able to switch over yet
> though. There are no obvious solutions for OSX test infrastructure other
> than maintaining our own racks of minis.
>
> Perf tests on all platforms will stay on hardware for now. Some people have
> done experiments on EC2 to see how talos performs, but I don't think we
> know enough about the impact of this to decide if we can move these off
> bare metal or not.
>

Amazon now supports dedicated instances, which means you fully control what
runs on the machine and other random tenants aren't fighting you for CPU
and I/O. Assuming the performance variance from other tenants is what was
preventing us from moving Talos to AWS, that blocker may no longer exist.


>
> We also run some tests for mobile on panda boards, but those are going away
> eventually.
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/1/15 12:41 PM, Chris AtLee wrote:
> >
> > Last week we made the same change to the rest of the Windows build
> >> infrastructure. All our Windows builds are now running in AWS. We're
> >> seeing
> >> good performance gains there too. On mozilla-inbound, we've reduced opt
> >> build times by at least 45 minutes, and nearly two hours (!!) off of our
> >> PGO build times.
> >>
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > What builds/tests have _not_ moved to the cloud? AIUI the two biggies are
> > OS X (can't move because OS licensing), and perf tests... How close are
> we
> > to transitioning everything else off MoCo metal?
> >
> > Justin
> >
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