Reliability of Fedora infrastructure to download cloud images

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:25:17 +0530
Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com> wrote:

> > I'm not famillar with the terminology, what does a 'voting guest'
> > mean? 
> 
> Sorry for being unclear. It means, any proposed OpenStack change/patch
> has to be executed on a Fedora virtual machine too, only once it
> passes the tests on Fedora, patches will be merged to upstream git. I
> cc'd Attila, he can correct me if I said something wrong.

Ah, interesting. Cool. 

> Looking at the script[1] that creates the CI VM, it uses this URL --
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Images/x86_64/Fedora-x86_64-20-20131211.1-sda.qcow2
> 
>   [1]
> https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/master/stackrc#L353

Strange. Thats going against our master mirrors. They shouldn't have
any downtime or problems. 

I would be very interested in any error output from when these
downloads fail. 
>  
> > Are these the released cloud images? f19/20? Or nightlies or ?
> 
> Released, official images.

ok. 

> > How often do they download? Once a image is loaded, I am not sure
> > why they would re-download it unless it's changed? 
> 
> I just confirmed, they (CI infra) download and cache it. But, once
> every 24 hours, they rebuild the caches. It's the humans that
> download it manually (without any caching environment) that face the
> bottlenecks they say.

ok. I'd love to hear what error(s) they see so we can clear them up. 
 
> > Or unless they are
> > grabbing nightly rawhide images?
> 
> They won't prefer to do this as only distribution tested image will be
> used used in OpenStack CI environment.

Fair enough. 

kevin
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