Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] gitlab: build all container images during CI

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

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:14:33PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 22/06/2020 17.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > We have a number of container images in tests/docker/dockerfiles
> > that are intended to provide well defined environments for doing
> > test builds. We want our CI system to use these containers too.
> > 
> > This introduces builds of all of them as the first stage in the
> > CI, so that the built containers are available for later build
> > jobs. The containers are setup to use the GitLab container
> > registry as the cache, so we only pay the penalty of the full
> > build when the dockerfiles change. The main qemu-project/qemu
> > repo is used as a second cache, so that users forking QEMU will
> > see a fast turnaround time on their CI jobs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   .gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml | 248 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   .gitlab-ci.yml              |   3 +
> >   2 files changed, 251 insertions(+)
> >   create mode 100644 .gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> > 
> > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..ea1edbb196
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
> > +
> > +
> > +.container_job_template: &container_job_definition
> > +  image: docker:stable
> > +  stage: containers
> > +  services:
> > +    - docker:dind
> > +  before_script:
> > +    - export TAG="$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/ci-$NAME:latest"
> > +    - export COMMON_TAG="$CI_REGISTRY/qemu-project/qemu/ci-$NAME:latest"
> > +    - docker info
> > +    - docker login registry.gitlab.com -u "$CI_REGISTRY_USER" -p "$CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD"
> > +  script:
> > +    - docker pull "$TAG" || docker pull "$COMMON_TAG" || true
> > +    - sed -i -e "s,FROM qemu:,FROM $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/ci-," tests/docker/dockerfiles/$NAME.docker
> > +    - docker build --cache-from "$TAG" --cache-from "$COMMON_TAG" --tag "$TAG" -f "tests/docker/dockerfiles/$NAME.docker" tests/docker/dockerfiles
> > +    - docker push "$TAG"
> > +  after_script:
> > +    - docker logout
> 
> .gitlab-ci.d/edk2.yml uses a "changes" rule to only run the pipeline if
> something really has been changed. Could you use something similar here?
> E.g.:
> 
> rules:
>  - changes:
>    - .gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
>    - tests/docker/*
>    - tests/docker/dockerfiles/*
> 
> ?

If the OS distro base image changes, we'll never pick it up with that
kind of filtering.  For the main gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu  you
could configure a nightly/weekly/whatever job to force rebuild on a
periodic basis to pick up base image changes.  The downside of this
is that any users who fork qemu won't have that periodic job and so
will be testing their work against potentially outdated content.

Having said all that, I'm not 100% convinced I'm actually picking
up changed base images right now anyway, given our use of caching.

It is possible that I would need todo an explict "docker pull" of
the base image to force it to trigger a refresh othrewise I have
a feeling we're always cached.

Regards,
Daniel
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