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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Eric,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I believe <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
Brent</span> has the action to get the CI infrastructure setup for AMD with SEV. There is a lab under construction at our new HQ in Santa Clara that should meet the requirements for CI, but we may be gated by the construction progress.
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Brent</span> is the best contact (unless he recruits others to the cause). Thanks for following up on this!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jesse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Ernst, Eric [mailto:eric.ernst@intel.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 30, 2018 2:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kevin Zhao <Kevin.Zhao@arm.com>; Larrew, Jesse <Jesse.Larrew@amd.com>; Hollingsworth, Brent <brent.hollingsworth@amd.com>; kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io; Mohammed Naser <mnaser@vexxhost.com>; Clark Boylan <cboylan@sapwetik.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Additional architecture support for Kata Containers: identifying owners for CI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Katazens –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">There are several patches and discussions in place around support for additional hardware platforms in the Kata Containers project. This is great! The three I’m aware of include AMD’s Epyc servers (leveraging
SEV), 64B ARM (though I did talk to folks @ Open Stack Summit who were asking about 32b – can you clarify Kevin?) as well as ppc64le.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To facilitate this happening, we need CI in place for these architectures. If it isn’t tested in our CI, we can’t effectively add support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">While we currently leverage Azure VMs for X86 testing, the CI tooling was created to be generic (we currently use Jenkins to drive the testing, though we are currently working with engineers on the Zuul project
to see if this would be a better fit). Graham started an issue specific to ARM at [1].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For ARM: I had discussions with Kevin Zhao while at Open Stack Summit, as well with Mohammed @ Vexxhost and Xu @ Hyper.sh. Each mentioned being able to help with appropriate support (whether it be dedicated
machines sitting in an engineering department or baremetal machines offered via a cloud provider). There were a lot of conversations, so mea culpa if I’m miss-remembering. I want to coordinate and make sure we have a clear next step here on who can facilitate,
and how/when. Who will drive this for ARM?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For PPC and AMD with SEV: we would have similar requirements. As Graham highlighted in [1], the current configuration using Jenkins can be seen at [2], though this would need adjustment to match the specific
scenario (this is specific to our azure setup today). Who’s the best point of contact for IBM? Brent, same question for AMD SEV enabled machines (assuming support is to be added)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[1] </span><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/ci/issues/30"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://github.com/kata-containers/ci/issues/30</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[2] </span><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/ci/tree/master/jenkins"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://github.com/kata-containers/ci/tree/master/jenkins</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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