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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/ci.rst | 32 | ||||
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diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a07b273 --- /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 diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/qemu-project.yml index 64cb2ba..dde8270 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' diff --git a/docs/devel/ci.rst b/docs/devel/ci.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..064ffa9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/devel/ci.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +== +CI +== + +QEMU has configurations enabled for a number of different CI services. +The most up to date information about them and their status can be +found at:: + + https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/CI + +Jobs on Custom Runners +====================== + +Besides the jobs run under the various CI systems listed before, there +are a number additional jobs that will run before an actual merge. +These use the same GitLab CI's service/framework already used for all +other GitLab based CI jobs, but rely on additional systems, not the +ones provided by GitLab as "shared runners". + +The architecture of GitLab's CI service allows different machines to +be set up with GitLab's "agent", called gitlab-runner, which will take +care of running jobs created by events such as a push to a branch. +Here, the combination of a machine, properly configured with GitLab's +gitlab-runner, is called a "custom runner". + +The GitLab CI jobs definition for the custom runners are located under:: + + .gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml + +Custom runners entail custom machines. To see a list of the machines +currently deployed in the QEMU GitLab CI and their maintainers, please +refer to the QEMU `wiki <https://wiki.qemu.org/AdminContacts>`__. diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst index ba90bad..40a7e2e 100644 --- a/docs/devel/index.rst +++ b/docs/devel/index.rst @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Contents: migration atomics stable-process + ci qtest decodetree secure-coding-practices |