RFC: config: add streams[].skip_cloud_images
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In RHCOS, we're often in a state where we don't care about regenerating all the disk images and instead just want the containers. We could do this by manually adding all the images we don't care about as `skip_artifacts` entries, but that's cumbersome and error-prone. Add a `skip_cloud_images` knob for this. We still generate the QEMU and live artifacts for kola tests to run and because they're useful to debug, but we drop everything else.
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I wish we had better terminology than cloud here because it includes skipping things that are more hypervisor and not cloud, but honestly I can't think of anything better than skip-non-core-artifacts: true.
I would like to maybe expand this in the future to not just skip_cloud_images: true, but maybe something more like "build cloud images once every two weeks", in which case we'd be updating the git repo less often because they would still be getting built periodically.
OR maybe we just make this a parameter that can be passed at build time.
| // container and QEMU image are always built and not skippable | ||
| // artifacts. | ||
| artifacts = artifacts.intersect(["extensions-container", "legacy-oscontainer", | ||
| "live", "metal", "metal4k"]) |
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should we include hashlist-experimental here?
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@mike-nguyen brought up that if we do this, it breaks the current flow of retroactively selecting cloud images from an already released z-stream when preparing a bootimage bump and replicating that. So either we'd need to change that process so that we turn it back on in time for the z-stream release when we know bootimage bumps are coming, or e.g. we add a new job (or enhance |
In RHCOS, we're often in a state where we don't care about regenerating all the disk images and instead just want the containers. We could do this by manually adding all the images we don't care about as
skip_artifactsentries, but that's cumbersome and error-prone.Add a
skip_cloud_imagesknob for this. We still generate the QEMU and live artifacts for kola tests to run and because they're useful to debug, but we drop everything else.