Buy, install, and use another CI server

Zen Fu
2023-04-04T12:12:12Z

GanttStart: 2022-06-01

# Buy and install

- [x] 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 ha...

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 (closed))

install VMs

Use

Take into account that we need to provision resources for:

Jenkins orchestrator: #17856 (closed)

production-ready GitLab CI runners: #17740 (closed)