RE: [PATCH v2 0/6] Community Lab Container Definitions

[Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohilyard@iol.unh.edu <ohilyard@iol.unh.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 3:53 PM
> To: ci@dpdk.org
> Cc: aconole@redhat.com; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>; Owen Hilyard
> <ohilyard@iol.unh.edu>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] Community Lab Container Definitions
> 
> From: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard@iol.unh.edu>
> 
> This patch series contains a new version of the DPDK CI containers. The old
> version was tied very tightly to the Community Lab Infrastructure, so it was
> not suitable for general use. This version is designed to make adding new
> OSes or OS versions as easy as possible. The minimum functionality can easily
> be built on any system that can compile DPDK. It includes support for
> building containers for other non-native architectures (ex: arm containers
> on x86) and for baking ABI references into the images.
> 
> The inventory file as added in this patch series defines what the community
> lab
> currently supports.
> 
> If you want to build these yourself, don't try to do parallel Makefile builds
> on non-server hardware. Libabigail is built into the containers, and since it
> is not avaliable in all distros it is compiled from source for many targets.
> If embedding the abi is enabled (DPDK_CI_CONTAINERS_BUILD_ABI=Y), with
> the
> current settings, DPDK will be compiled twice for every target in the
> inventory file. This will become three times when DPDK main has ABI stability
> again. Due to how the containers are constructed, building on non-native
> architectures is especially expensive because DPDK is compiled with an
> emulated
> compiler in a qemu vm that only has one thread.
> 
> Owen Hilyard (6):
>   containers/docs: Add container builder start
>   containers/inventory: Add inventory for container builder
>   containers/builder: Dockerfile creation script
>   containers/templates: Templates for Dockerfiles
>   containers/container_builder: Container for python scripts
>   containers/Makefile: Makefile to automate builds
> 

This is a great addition to the CI repo, thanks for the effort.

Tested with podman version 4.3.0.

Reviewed-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>