[OpenStack-Infra] [openstack-infra] [third-party CI] Hardware requirements for setting up CI environment

Amit Das amit.das at cloudbyte.com
Fri Oct 31 12:15:29 UTC 2014


Thanks Erlon & Jeremy for the detailed responses.

Erlon, the configuration doc will definitely help us. Looking forward to it.

Regards,
Amit
*CloudByte Inc.* <http://www.cloudbyte.com/>

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Erlon Cruz <sombrafam at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a CI for Cinder drivers. Currently we use 1 instance for the
> master and 1 instance for each slave(we test one driver on each slave). The
> configuration is the following:
>
> Master: 2VCPUs + 8GB RAM
> Slaves: 2VCPUs + 12GB RAM
> Network: 4Mb Download + 4Mb Upload
>
> Our jobs usually take 1:20h to run, but that is because of the network. In
> our setup we virtualize all hosts using VMWare, which is very handy as we
> can save an snapshot and trigger a revert after the job is complete also,
> if you have FC drivers, VMWare will save a lot of pain with it PCI
> passthrought. We have an step by step to configure the env with VMWare and
> Cinder drivers, if you need we can make it available.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-10-30 20:28:17 +0530 (+0530), Amit Das wrote:
>> > This is exactly what we intend to do. Wanted to know if there is
>> > anything else that we should know before placing the requests.
>>
>> In that case, if you're wanting to do devstack-gate based jobs we
>> use instances with 8 VCPUs and 8 GB RAM. A typical tempest-full run
>> takes somewhere in the vicinity of an hour to complete depending on
>> what configuration options have been selected. Due to the inability
>> to cleanly re-run DevStack or to trust that proposed changes haven't
>> destroyed the usability of the worker instance, we recycle and
>> replace them with fresh instances for each job.
>> --
>> Jeremy Stanley
>>
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