Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci: Replace Docker with Kaniko

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:24:44AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 16/05/2024 20.24, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 05:52:43PM +0100, Camilla Conte wrote:
> > > Enables caching from the qemu-project repository.
> > > 
> > > Uses a dedicated "$NAME-cache" tag for caching, to address limitations.
> > > See issue "when using --cache=true, kaniko fail to push cache layer [...]":
> > > https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/1459
> ...
> > TL;DR: functionally this patch is capable of working. The key downside
> > is that it doubles our storage usage. I'm not convinced Kaniko offers
> > a compelling enough benefit to justify this penalty.
> 
> Will this patch fix the issues that we are currently seeing with the k8s
> runners not working in the upstream CI? If so, I think that would be enough
> benefit, wouldn't it?

Paolo said on IRC that he has reverted the changes to the runner which
caused us problems. Docker in Docker is still a documented & supported
option for GitLab AFAICT, so I would hope we can keep using it as
before.

With regards,
Daniel
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