# CentOS CI - On-boarding

Note to users:

Please note that Infra space is for Fedora and CentOS related projects to

consume. Decision may take some time (often up to 2 weeks) as these are decided

by the whole team.

Once decided as go, we will create you a namespace in a openshift cluster where

you can configure your CI. We do provide a Jenkins template in case you want to be

able to consume vms/baremetal nodes to perform your CI.

Please answer the following questions so that we understand your requirement.

* How does your project relates to Fedora/CentOS?

* Describe your work flow and if you need any special permissions (other than

  admin access to namespace), please tell us and provide a reason for them.

* Do you need bare-metal/vms checkout capability? (we prefer your workflow

  containerized)

* Resources required

  * PVs:

```

Project_name:

Project_members:

 - user1@ACO_registered_email_address

 - user2@ACO_registered_email_address

```

## Steps

1. Create an OpenShift namespace

2. Create an entry in duffy db (with ssh key) - follow adding-duffy-api-key.md

3. Create a PV(Persistent Volume) for Jenkins instance

4. Instantiate a template to provision Jenkins

### Create an OpenShift namespace

Using the data provided by tenant (i.e. Project name and its admins), create an yaml file to be passed to ansible-playbook (example above).

Store it in the (private) [projects directory](https://github.com/centosci/projects) to and push it to git

Use playbook (adhoc-openshift-resources.yaml)[https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-infra-playbooks/blob/staging/adhoc-openshift-resources.yaml] with variables `host=openshift-ci-management` and `the file containing project name and admins`

Example: "ansible-playbook playbooks/adhoc-openshift-resources.yaml -e "host=ocp-ci-management" -e "@important_project.yaml""

!!! note

    If you need to also modify members and/or email addresses, you can just follow the same process and replay the same playbook : that will reflect changes in openshift. If you need access to that private git repository (to be fixed and moved elsewhere in the official `centos` namespace, reach out to another infra team member

## Create an entry in duffy db (with ssh key) - [follow adding-duffy-api-key.md](/operations/ci/adding_cico_tenant/adding-duffy-api-key/)

## Create a PV(Persistent Volume) for Jenkins instance

The default PV size for Jenkins instance is 10Gi. If a volume of a different size is created it will need to be reflected in the next section

To create the PV follow [Persistent storage via NFS](https://docs.infra.centos.org/operations/ci/installation/persistant_storage_nfs/). The host will be `ocp-ci-management`

## Instantiate a template to provision Jenkins

* Login to openshift

* Ensure you are in Developer mode and select +Add from the menu

* At the top select the Project cico-templates from the dropdown

* Under the Developer Catalog section select All Services

* Enter cico-workspace in the search field you will see a template 

  called "cico-workspace: provided by The CentOS Project"

* Click the template to start instantiation process.

  * Select the namespace we want to run Jenkins in (In Namespace variable)

  * Enter appropriate Memory limit and volume capacity (for Jenkins, we prefer 3Gi and 10Gi respectively)

  * Enter duffy API key for the project and SSH private key whose public pair is in duffy db.

Click create to instantiate the project.

Admin's hack: Increase timeout in deployment config to counter our slow storage timeout issue.