Request for arm64 machines to run GH action runners for etcd-io

[dims]

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First and Last Name

Davanum Srinivas

Email

davanum@gmail.com

Company/Organization

CNCF / AWS

Job Title

Principal Engineer

Project Title (i.e., a summary of what do you want to do, not what is the name of the open source project you're working with)

arm64 based testing for etcd

Briefly describe the project (i.e., what is the detail of what you're planning to do with these servers?)

The etcd team had marked arm64 in their Tier 1 here before, but then downgraded it to Tier 3 as they lost access to the arm64 infrastructure https://etcd.io/docs/v3.5/op-guide/supported-platform/

Please see for context:

• https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/14748
• https://groups.google.com/g/etcd-dev/c/3s-GT1t8kBc/m/s3k7UoLoBQAJ

Is the code that you’re going to run 100% open source? If so, what is the URL or URLs where it is located? What is your association with that project?

https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/

Yes, I am a contributor to Kubernetes, containerd and etcd.

What kind of machines and how many do you expect to use (see: https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/)?

2x c3.large.arm

What operating system and networking are you planning to use?

Linux (probably ubuntu)

Any other relevant details we should know about?

cc @serathius @spzala

[caniszczyk]

+1

[idvoretskyi]

@dims invite sent!

[vielmetti]

the issue of arm64 support for etcd goes back a long, long ways to https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/5054 - looking forward to getting this solidified once and for all.

[dims]

thanks @caniszczyk @idvoretskyi @vielmetti !

[idvoretskyi]

@dims JFYI, I believe @vielmetti may provide more details, but ARM instances are not available across all metros on Equinix Metal.

You may find the actual capacity by running the following CLI command with the metal-cli:

metal capacity get | grep arm

[vielmetti]

We sorted out availability, and two systems are being turned up.

[vielmetti]

Two GH runner systems are online; from the Equinix side this looks OK to close as "completed".

[dims]

This is done and ready and it is working fine! thanks @vielmetti @idvoretskyi @caniszczyk