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Fetch the build image from the registry instead of building it on the fly.

Guillaume Melquiond requested to merge ci-docker into master

Rather than having slaves build Docker images on the fly to perform continuous integration, a single pre-built image is now stored inside the registry. This is the same kind of setup used for the continuous integration of Coq.

As a consequence, slaves now have to provide docker executors rather than shell ones. That said, we still need a shell slave around to pre-build the image, as well as to perform the deployment. (Eventually, this should be changed to a docker-in-docker executor.)

Benefits:

  • The Dockerfile description can now be modified as needed.
  • Slaves should now be a bit more secure (at least the docker ones).
  • We might be able to reduce the storage space needed by the slaves. (We are getting dangerously close to our 400GB quota.)

Downsides:

  • Testing a new OCaml compiler or an additional Opam package is no longer a matter of committing a few lines and waiting a few minutes.
  • Pre-building the Docker image has to be triggered manually.
  • It takes about two hours to create the image.
Edited by Guillaume Melquiond

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