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

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 07.05.24 um 12:57 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba-technical:
> 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

Andrew means the required cloud image at rackspace in order to
build our private runner.

metze