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

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 07 May 2024 22:45:30 +1200
Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> 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.

I think Canonical might not agree with you there:

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat

According to that webpage, it was released on the 25th April 2024

Rowland

> 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
>