Re[2]: CI

Hi all,
I've read about limitations on the Apache side. It turns out not so great in that case. There's only approved actions available and, more important, there's limited number of runners available for *all* Apache projects. Ifra warns that it could be really slow [1]
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=173085013#content/view/173085013 Sunday, 10 October 2021, 10:10am +03:00 from Andrus Adamchik  [email protected] :

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>[1]  https://github.com/ishgroup/oncourse/actions
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>Nice! FWIW Bootique is using Github Actions for its dozens of modules, including cross-DB tests. A huge improvement over Travis.
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> However a bit more limited with regard to database choices.
>We can run tests against any database that has a Docker image. SQLServer does. (We should also switch to Testcontainers for managing dockerized tested services, but that's a separate discussion and does not affect a CI/CD choice).
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>Aurora is cloud-based of course, so we'll need to program provisioning the test DB ourselves, but as long as a build agent has internet access, this should be doable.
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> Are we limited at all within the Apache project with how we can configure Actions?
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>Haven't tried it, good question. I hope not and it is all straight GitHub.
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>Andrus
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> On Oct 10, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Aristedes Maniatis < [email protected]> wrote:
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> On 10/10/21 5:26pm, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>> BTW, we should probably move to Github Actions for CI/CD. Much faster than Travis.
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> I've got a bit of experience [1] with github actions in some of my other open source projects, and mostly they are very good. Ties in nicely with pull requests as well. However a bit more limited with regard to database choices. Ideally we'd want databases like SQL Server, AWS Aurora, etc in our test suite.
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> Are we limited at all within the Apache project with how we can configure Actions?
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> Ari
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> [1]  https://github.com/ishgroup/oncourse/actions
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