Provide CI/CD resources for Linux Foundation's Project EVE

[rvs]

Name, email, company, job title

Roman Shaposhnik, rvs at apache dot org, Linux Foundation, N/A

Project Title and description

Linux Foundation Project EVE https://www.lfedge.org/projects/eve/

Project EVE aims to do for the IoT edge what Android did for mobile by creating an open edge computing engine that enables the development, orchestration and security of cloud-native and legacy applications on distributed edge compute nodes. Supporting containers and clusters (Dockers and Kubernetes), virtual machines and unikernels, Project EVE aims to provide a flexible foundation for IoT edge deployments with choice of any hardware, application and cloud.

Which members of the community would benefit from your work?

Everyone running EVE on ARM. E.g. https://www.zdnet.com/article/xen-our-hypervisor-now-runs-on-raspberry-pi-4-but-pis-quirks-made-life-tricky/ and https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/29/xen_on_rpi_4/ to give two recent examples.

Is the code that you’re going to run 100% open source?

Yes (as any code under the governance of Linux Foundation)

Provide the URLs where it is located, or a Git repository

https://github.com/lf-edge/eve https://github.com/lf-edge/adam https://github.com/lf-edge/eden

What infrastructure (computing resources and network access) do you need?

24/7 build slaves for GitHub actions: 4-8Gb of RAM 2-4 cores, 3Gb of disk

Describe the continuous integration (CI) system in use or desired for this project

GitHub actions

Are you testing every check-in on arm64? (Would you like to?) If so, share a public URL of a CI dashboard

Yes we would like to test every check in on arm64. Here's what we're currently doing on x86: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/actions?query=workflow%3AEden

Are you using a hosted CI system for some or all of your existing testing?

Yes. We're using GitHub actions: https://github.com/lf-edge/eve/actions

Please state your contributions to the open source community and any other relevant initiatives

See the links to how we enabled Xen on RPi4 above. Other than that there's a lot of tech press coverage around Project EVE.

[vielmetti]

Thanks @rvs - we'll get this set up for you!

[rvs]

This is awesome news @vielmetti -- not to be a pest ;-) but any ETA?

[vielmetti]

Account is set up, hardware is reserved. You should get a note from @pgmwoa with the full welcome. Follow the docs at https://metal.equinix.com/developers/docs/deploy/reserved/ to deploy your reserved hardware.

[pgmwoa]

Please refer to the welcome email for instructions on how to use the reserved server and the supporting resources.

[vielmetti]

@rvs - at your convenience, please schedule a call with me at https://calendly.com/evielmetti to go over what your plans and goals are and how we can help achieve them!