[Gluster-infra] [Gluster-devel] Announcing Softserve- serve yourself a VM

[Nigel Babu]

Please file an issue for this:
https://github.com/gluster/softserve/issues/new

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Sanju Rakonde <srakonde at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Nigel,
>
> I have a suggestion here. It will be good if we have a option like request
> for extension of the VM duration, and the option will be automatically
> activated after 3 hours of usage of VM. If somebody is using the VM after 3
> hours and they feel like they need it for 2 more hours they will request to
> extend the duration by 1 more hour. It will save the time of engineering
> since if a machine is expired, one has to configure the machine and all
> other stuff from the beginning.
>
> Thanks,
> Sanju
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Nigel Babu <nigelb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> We’ve enabled certain limits for this application:
>>>>
>>>>    1.
>>>>
>>>>    Maximum allowance of 5 VM at a time across all the users. User have
>>>>    to wait until a slot is available for them after 5 machines allocation.
>>>>    2.
>>>>
>>>>    User will get the requesting machines maximum upto 4 hours.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> IMHO ,max cap of 4 hours is not sufficient. Most of the times, the
>>> reason of loaning a machine is basically debug a race where we can't
>>> reproduce the failure locally what I have seen debugging such tests might
>>> take more than 4 hours. Imagine you had done some tweaking to the code and
>>> you're so close to understand the problem and then the machine expires,
>>> it's definitely not a happy feeling. What are the operational challenges if
>>> we have to make it for atleast 8 hours or max a day?
>>>
>>
>> The 4h cap was kept so that multiple people could have a chance to debug
>> their test failures on the same day. Pushing the cap to 8h means that if
>> you don't have a machine to loan when you start work one will not be
>> available until the next day. At this point, we'll not be increasing the
>> timeout. So far, we've had one person actually hit this. I'd like to see
>> more data points before we make an application level change.
>>
>> --
>> nigelb
>>
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>


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