From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: michael.adler@siemens.com (Adler, Michael)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 08:10:09 +0000
Subject: [cip-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Introducing gitlab-cloud-ci. Perform
 ISAR-based CI builds in the cloud.
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Hi Dan,

> I thought they billed per-second now days, but looking into it, it seems that may only be for amazon linux and ubuntu
> AMIs?

you are right, it looks like they've changed it quite a while back [1] - at least for AMIs outside of the AWS
Marketplace, if I understood that part correctly.  Currently, I'm just using the kops default (Debian Jessie, with a 4.4
kernel), but Amazon Linux is supposed to work as well [2].

So yes, I think we can reduce the timeout value dramatically (maybe even down to 1 minute), possibly saving quite some
money over time. Thanks for the input, it's much appreciated!

> Do your builds take advantage of any caching, and if so, how are you making it persistent?

Caching is supported in general and up to the user (or rather their .gitlab-ci.yml [3]). IIRC, Gitlab Runner just
creates a zip file of the files/directories you've specified and uploads it to S3.

> I'm also really curious about your experience with k8s, but mostly I'm
> interested to find out how it works for this project over time in terms
> of stability, cost, complexity, etc.

Well, so am I :)

> Thanks again! If there is any place else I can follow information about
> this let me know.

For now, I can advise following the git repo and this mailing list. Code contributions are welcome as well, of course.

Best regards,
Michael

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/
[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/release-1.11/docs/images.md
[3] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/caching/

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