The CentOS Project has some resources available for each SIG to run some CI jobs/tests for their projects. We'll document soon how to get onboarded (on request) on the CentOS CI infra platform.
We offer the following resources :
Duffy Duffy is the middle layer running ci.centos.org that manages the provisioning, maintenance and teardown / rebuild of the Nodes (physical hardware and VMs) that are used to run the tests in the CI Cluster.
We provide both bare-metal and VMs and support the following architectures :
To be able to request ephemeral nodes to run your tests, you'll need both your project name and api key that will be generated for you once your project will have be allowed on that Infra.
Note
It's worth knowing that there are quotas in place to ensure that you can't request infinite number of nodes in parallel and each session has a maximum lifetime of 6h. After that your nodes are automatically reclaimed by Duffy and are freshly reinstalled and put back in the Ready pool.
Warning
The following notes are only applicable for new Duffy v3 API that will be available around August 2022. Previous cico client will continue to work on actual Duffy v2 instance for the time being
Use pip (or pip3.8 on el8) to install duffy client.
pip install --user duffy[client]
Duffy client needs the tenant's name and the tenant's API key to be able to request sessions from duffy server. If the tenant doesn't exist yet, it should be created in duffy server. Having the tenant's name and the tenant's API key, create the file .config/duffy with the following content.
client:
url: https://duffy.ci.centos.org/api/v1
auth:
name: <tenant name>
key: <API key>
Before creating a session, the name of the pool is required. Check the pool available executing the command.
duffy client list-pools
Note
The name of the pool is structured like this:
<AAA>-<BBB>-<CCC>-<DDD>-<EEE>-<FFF>
Having the name of the pool, request how many sessions needed. Duffy has a limit of sessions per tenant, this information is available in the duffy server.
Worth knowing that one can also see current pool usage and machines in ready state, etc, by querying specific pool. Example:
duffy client show-pool virt-ec2-t2-centos-9s-x86_64
{
"action": "get",
"pool": {
"name": "virt-ec2-t2-centos-9s-x86_64",
"fill_level": 5,
"levels": {
"provisioning": 0,
"ready": 5,
"contextualizing": 0,
"deployed": 0,
"deprovisioning": 0
}
}
}
To then request some nodes from a pool one can use the following duffy call :
duffy client request-session pool=<name of the pool>,quantity=<number of machines to get>
By default this command outputs a json, but it's possible to change the format to yaml or flat using --format. Under "node" key it's possible to find the node's hostname provisioned. Log in to it as root user, using ssh.
{ <...output ommited...> "nodes": [ { "hostname": "<hostname>", "ipaddr": "<ip address>", <...output ommited...> }
At the end of the test, you should "return" your ephemeral nodes to Duffy API service. This will trigger either a reinstall of the physical node (through kickstart) or just discarding/terminating it (if that's a cloud instance)
To retire a session, the session id is required. Check the id executing.
duffy client list-sessions
When needed to retire the session execute the command.
duffy client retire-session <session id>