The problem with the other projects image builds is that they are based for bigger systems, while cirros is an embedded-device-like image which boots in a couple of seconds.
Couldn't we contribute to cirros to have such module load by default [1]? Or may be it's time for Openstack to build their own "cirros-like" image with all the capabilities we may be missing for general tempest testing? (ipv6, vlan, etc..? ) [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cirros-dev/cirros/trunk/view/head:/bin/grab-kernels On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > On 2016-08-06 14:44:27 -0600 (-0600), Doug Wiegley wrote: >> I would be tempted to make a custom image, and ask to put it on >> our mirrors, or have nodepool manage the image building and >> storing. > > Some projects (I think at least Ironic and Trove) have CI jobs to > build custom virtual machine images they then boot under nova in > DevStack using jobs. At the moment the image build jobs are > uploading to tarballs.openstack.org and then test jobs are consuming > them from there. > >> You can also likely just have the module on the local mirrors, >> which would alleviate the random internet issue. > [...] > > We've discussed this, and I think it makes sense. If we move our > tarballs site into AFS, then we could serve its contents from our > local AFS cache mirrors in each provider for improved performance. > This may not work well for exceptionally large images due to the > time it takes to pull them into the AFS cache over the Internet, but > some experimentation with small and infrequently-updated custom disk > images seems like it could prove worthwhile. > -- > Jeremy Stanley > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev