On 08/06/2021 05.14, Cleber Rosa wrote:
As described in the included documentation, the "custom runner" jobs
extend the GitLab CI jobs already in place. One of their primary
goals of catching and preventing regressions on a wider number of host
systems than the ones provided by GitLab's shared runners.
This sets the stage in which other community members can add their own
machine configuration documentation/scripts, and accompanying job
definitions. As a general rule, those newly added contributed jobs
should run as "non-gating", until their reliability is verified (AKA
"allow_failure: true").
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com>
---
.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml | 14 ++++++++++++++
.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml | 1 +
docs/devel/ci.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
docs/devel/index.rst | 1 +
4 files changed, 44 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 .gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml
create mode 100644 docs/devel/ci.rst
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a07b27384c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# The CI jobs defined here require GitLab runners installed and
+# registered on machines that match their operating system names,
+# versions and architectures. This is in contrast to the other CI
+# jobs that are intended to run on GitLab's "shared" runners.
+
+# Different than the default approach on "shared" runners, based on
+# containers, the custom runners have no such *requirement*, as those
+# jobs should be capable of running on operating systems with no
+# compatible container implementation, or no support from
+# gitlab-runner. To avoid problems that gitlab-runner can cause while
+# reusing the GIT repository, let's enable the clone strategy, which
+# guarantees a fresh repository on each job run.
+variables:
+ GIT_STRATEGY: clone
I assume this now does not influence the shared runners anymore, now that
the file is handled as last entry in the list below? Or is this a global
setting that will also be used for the shared runners? Anyway, let's keep it
for now, we can still try to improve later...
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml
index 64cb2ba1da..dde8270301 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ include:
- local: '/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml'
- local: '/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml'
- local: '/.gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml'
+ - local: '/.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml'
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
