• DevSummit
• 201407
• TestClusterAutomation

Attendees

Session Chair: Jon Anderson
Eric le Blan, Mathieu Arnold, Sofian Brabez, Piete Brooks, Baptiste Daroussin, Ed Maste, Hiroki Sato

Whiteboard

Interests

• As little intervention as possible!
• Network testing
• VM config compatibility
• FreeBSD cluster management
• Post-commit hook testing
• Pre-commit testing
• Disposable machines
• Build-test cluster
  • Make release insufficient
  • Need to improve bootstrap

Discussion

Technologies

• PXE + DHCP
• iSCSI boot

• iPXE -> iSCSI disk image

  • Initialize iSCSI connection
• Foreman
• Emulab
• Spacewalk
• GLPI

Misc

• Machine DB
  • Serial numbers
  • MAC addresses
• Our loader does not speak HTTP
• Provide ISO image via iPXE
• PXELINUX integration
• Testing/CI
• Phabricator
• Kuya

Building

• Vagrant
• Poudriere extensions
• Ready-to-use images
  • Docker
  • Kato Kazuyoshi
  • CBSD
  • Warden
• VM images

• Makefs -> iSCSI -> VM / PXE boot

  • VMs
  • Jails
  • Bare metla

Requirements / Goals / Use cases

• Test FreeBSD kernels
• Test entire installed system (e.g. PostgreSQL on Linux and FreeBSD)
  • Compare versions, operating systems, etc.
• Cluster reproducibility (easy to build a new test cluster)
• Manage Jenkins and build / Buildbot instances
• FreeBSD evaluation
• Reservation system
  • Package building: priority schedule
• Poudriere cluster deployment

Machine Requirements

• Power control (switched PDU, IPMI)
• Consoles (serial, IPMI)
  • Conserver
• Diskfull and diskless machines

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