Buy, install, and use another CI server

GanttStart: 2022-06-01

Buy and install

• choose the hardware
  • https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/hardware_for_automated_tests_take3/#bare-metal-gaming-setup-in-a-server-housing-dedicated-to-ci
  • iguana hardware: sysadmin-private.git:systems/iguana/notes.mdwn
• find out colocation costs and find a way to pay for them
• check with colocation whether there's space, and if we could get a dedicated switch
• ask our local contact to buy & install the machine
• determine how many VMs it'll have and of which kind (mind #17856)
• install VMs

Use

Take into account that we need to provision resources for:

• Jenkins orchestrator: tails/sysadmin#17856
• production-ready GitLab CI runners: tails/sysadmin#17740