P2P Packaging/Koji Cloud

[Richard Marko]

On 12/07/2011 02:46 PM, Denis Arnaud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> RedHat-hosted Koji servers offer an invaluable service by allowing all 
> of us, package maintainers, to build all of "our" Fedora packages. I 
> guess that that infrastructure is not cost-less for RedHat and and the 
> quality of service is great (for instance, the wait in the queues, 
> before Koji actually builds the packages submitted via the 
> command-line client, is not so long).
>
> As Fedora is pretty advanced in the cloud/virtualisation arena, we 
> could imagine a "Koji Cloud", hosted on VMs offered by volunteers. For 
> instance, I could contribute a few VMs in Europe (hosted on 
> http://www.ovh.co.uk/). Our Cloud SIG 
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG) and/or Virt ML 
> (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt and 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization)/RedHat 
> ET (http://et.redhat.com/) colleagues could help designing and 
> implementing the following infrastructure:
>  * VM template/images, ready to be started on the volunteer's servers 
> everywhere in the world, 24x7.
>     - SSH public keys of Koji administrators would be part of the 
> images, so that they can have an easy access to them, just in case.
>     - Those VMs would update themselves automatically.
>     - The containers could be standardised as well. For instance, 
> ProxMox/OpenVZ or Fedora/CentOS with libvirt.
>  * A directory (LDAP, or something less centralised, like the address 
> book of Skype, for instance), keeping track of all those VMs:
>     - with the corresponding last known status;
>     - with the VM configurations (Fedora/CentOS release, CPU, memory, 
> disk usage, etc);
>     - with some rating corresponding to their quality of service 
> (build duration, reliability of the VM, MTBF, etc).
>  * A dispatcher system:
>     - which would route the Koji build requests to available VMs;
>     - collect the outcome of the builds (logs, RPM packages, 
> statistics, QoS, etc) and store them in the current ("centralised") 
> Koji infrastructure.
>
> As I am not a specialist of all those technologies, I may have 
> forgotten a lot of things, but you get the idea.
> Doesn't it sound great? Does it sound realisable? Am I crazy to dream 
> to such an infrastructure?

I'm currently writing a proposal of similar architecture for testing 
purposes. Looks like the core -- community provided virtual machines is 
the common component for all this stuff so if designed correctly it can 
be shared for testing/koji/whatever.

I will let you know when the proposal is done so we can discuss  the 
details.

Regards,

-- 
Richard Marko