[openstack-dev] [all][infra] Switching images for testing

Paul Belanger pabelanger at redhat.com
Thu Mar 10 18:48:06 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 04:41:43PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> We're migrating already since Friday jobs using the so-called
> bare-trusty images to ubuntu-trusty images.
> 
> These images are used for for most of unit and functional tests, for
> documentation etc. Devstack is still run on devstack-trusty nodes for
> now, but will also move at a later date.
> 
> A direct benefit of this change is that bare-trusty images are only
> available on Rackspace clouds, while the new ubuntu-trusty images are
> available in all clouds that the CI systems use. This allows a better
> load balancing for these.
> 
> We still have to convert some jobs and solve a few problems with
> specific jobs before we can make a general announcement and explain
> new possibilities that this change will bring projects.
> 
> For now, if jobs suddenly fail, please check - as usual - the log
> files and if there is anything strange happening that always worked,
> please raise it on the #openstack-infra IRC channel.
> 
> One note: We converted some names of jobs as well, so intead of
> gate-REPO-tox-ENVIRONMENT we change these to
> gate-REPO-tox-nodb-ENVIRONMENT if no MySQL/PostgreSQL databases are
> needed and otherwise to gate-REPO-tox-db-ENVIRONMENT. As final step,
> we will rename the nodb variant as default variant. Open changes are
> [1] and [2].
> 
> A more detailed announcement will come once this change is done.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/289785
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/289848

I just want to say thank you again to Andreas for taking point in the rename
process.  Excellent work!



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