CI-tron - Bare-metal CI infrastructure

You have successfully generated a disk image for your pabloyoyoista-x8664 CI gateway!

Flashing instructions

In order to make use of it, you will need to:

• Download your disk image
• Uncompress it using: xz -d hw-pabloyoyoista-x8664-efi_x86_64.img.xz
• Flash it, according to the instructions found in the target-specific README

Hardware setup

Please refer to CI-tron's hardware requirements for an up-to-date information.

Boot sequence

You may now boot your CI gateway which should go through the following boot stages:

• Firmware;
• iPXE bootloader:
  • Get a local IP address using DHCP;
  • Download and execute the boot script from config/boot/boot.ipxe
  • Download the kernel, modules, firmware, and initramfs of boot2container (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gfx-ci/boot2container);
  • Boot the wanted configuration.
• Boot2container:
  • Get an IP address using DHCP;
  • Download the secret part of the command line which contains per-boot credentials to the configuration bucket;
  • Find and mount the most appropriate block device to use as a cache device among unpartitioned drives or partitions (see gateway_cache_device in config/boot/boot.ipxe);
  • Download and run the wanted CI-tron image (see gateway_img_path in config/boot/boot.ipxe).
• CI-tron:
  • Boot using systemd;
  • Load the dashboard on the current virtual terminal.

Usage

Please consult CI-tron's documentation for further guidance on how to interact with your CI gateway!