On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:20 AM Alex Schultz <aschultz@redhat.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 7:13 AM Emilien Macchi <emilien@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 5:27 PM Wesley Hayutin <whayutin@redhat.com> wrote:
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>> FYI...
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>> If you find your jobs are failing with an error similar to [1], you have been rate limited by docker.io via the upstream mirror system and have hit [2].  I've been discussing the issue w/ upstream infra, rdo-infra and a few CI engineers.
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>> There are a few ways to mitigate the issue however I don't see any of the options being completed very quickly so I'm asking for your patience while this issue is socialized and resolved.
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>> For full transparency we're considering the following options.
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>> 1. move off of docker.io to quay.io
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> quay.io also has API rate limit:
> https://docs.quay.io/issues/429.html
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> Now I'm not sure about how many requests per seconds one can do vs the other but this would need to be checked with the quay team before changing anything.
> Also quay.io had its big downtimes as well, SLA needs to be considered.
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>> 2. local container builds for each job in master, possibly ussuri
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> Not convinced.
> You can look at CI logs:
> - pulling / updating / pushing container images from docker.io to local registry takes ~10 min on standalone (OVH)
> - building containers from scratch with updated repos and pushing them to local registry takes ~29 min on standalone (OVH).
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>> 3. parent child jobs upstream where rpms and containers will be build and host artifacts for the child jobs
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> Yes, we need to investigate that.
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>> 4. remove some portion of the upstream jobs to lower the impact we have on 3rd party infrastructure.
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> I'm not sure I understand this one, maybe you can give an example of what could be removed?

We need to re-evaulate our use of scenarios (e.g. we have two
scenario010's both are non-voting).  There's a reason we historically
didn't want to add more jobs because of these types of resource
constraints.  I think we've added new jobs recently and likely need to
reduce what we run. Additionally we might want to look into reducing
what we run on stable branches as well.

Oh... removing jobs (I thought we would remove some steps of the jobs).

Yes big +1, this should be a continuous goal when working on CI, and always evaluating what we need vs what we run now.

We should look at:

1) services deployed in scenarios that aren't worth testing (e.g. deprecated or unused things) (and deprecate the unused things)

2) jobs themselves (I don't have any example beside scenario010 but I'm sure there are more).

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Emilien Macchi