There's a request in place to give you AWS creds, ...
# arm-architecture
b
There's a request in place to give you AWS creds, @seph what's the status ?
t
Ping again here, were we able to get credits? I know you have a lot going on @seph so no worries if this needed to be picked up again next year.
Ah I see we have some credits (from reading past meeting notes) and https://github.com/envoyproxy/ci-infra looks like a good solution for handling the agent management.
s
We have credits, which we are rapidly consuming with the CDN usage. (Though at an absolute scale, we can float these costs)
I have email into Fastly about whether they’ll cover our CDN costs, But they’re not answering, so I might go ping cloudflare.
I keep staring at aarch64, and feeling lost in the weeds. There some weird security implications around the azure or github agent on infra.
t
I read through the EnvoyProxy quickly and I feel comfortable with how that orchestration works. What I do not yet understand is how we would maintain that setup as code (tf) but @CptOfEvilMinions was helping us along a bit. Maybe we can delegate this setup to Ben?
I can go through the EnvoyProxy set up on my own AWS account and use free tier machines to build the end-to-end picture for myself over the next two weeks.
c
I can assist with TF
Also, AWS provides research grants and if accepted you will be provided AWS credit. I have done the process is before and I have been accepted several times. https://aws.amazon.com/grants/
t
@CptOfEvilMinions do you more or less grok the explanation from https://github.com/envoyproxy/ci-infra? I think we'll want to tee up this work in Jan or Feb.
s
My other pretty vague concern, is that I kinda want to take that work and shift it to github actions. But mostly, azure makes me cry
t
I am optimistic that GitHub actions will improve the rough edges and I also think it's the best solution long term. If we do want to make the commitment to migrate we should do that before any ARM64 work
c
@theopolis just to ensure I understand the request. The request is about setting up Envoy’s publicly released CI pipeline and not setting up Envoy?
t
well if we switch to GH actions then the request would be something like: can we mimic what Envoy does only using GH actions agents. The appealing thing in that linked repo is the ephemeral VMs.
c
@theopolis and @seph I have some questions about the current state of the CI pipeline and deliverables. Can we set up a Zoom call sometime this week or in the new year to discuss these?
s
I'm happy to chat! Not sure who else we might need. I'm generally available 1pm-5pm eastern time. (With a couple of meeting carveouts)
b
Hi Folks ! Happy new year ...
been away from this channel for a while, are we good or do I need to do more to help ? I have a few people poking me about getting 4.6 for arm 🙂