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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 17:56 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> 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
> > theGitLab runners we have in Rackspace, so that it still offers a
> > tag thatour jobs will then expect.
> > While doing that, if the image is available by then (it isn't yet),
> > Iwould 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 asmany updates to run on first boot.
> > Please let me know if you think that could be a concern.  On the
> > plusside it should allow the more recent kernel for some more
> > io_uringtesting.
> > Naturally I'll check a full private CI run passes before I rebuild
> > forproduction.
> 
> Great! Thanks!
> metze

I still plan to rebuild the runners, but Ubuntu 24.04 is not out yet.
Also, it seems the key is actually to require fewer tags, and that
shouldn't require a runner rebuild to do that.  
I will have to do it to allow private builds however, so I am not off
the hook!
See https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/3620
Andrew Bartlett

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