Need to rebuild Rackspace gitlab runners - plan to move to Ubuntu 24.04

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 29.04.24 um 07:26 schrieb Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical:
> Just a heads up that due to
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15638 I need to rebuild the
> GitLab runners we have in Rackspace, so that it still offers a tag that
> our jobs will then expect.
> 
> While doing that, if the image is available by then (it isn't yet), I
> would like to make our runners run on Ubuntu 24.04 as the runners
> (which are booted once per job) will start faster as they won't have as
> many updates to run on first boot.
> 
> Please let me know if you think that could be a concern.  On the plus
> side it should allow the more recent kernel for some more io_uring
> testing.
> 
> Naturally I'll check a full private CI run passes before I rebuild for
> production.

Great! Thanks!

metze