Northeastern-Electric-Racing / Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Odysseus
[DevOps] - Self-host github build runners to validate buildroot builds
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- Dominant language
- Shell
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- 5
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Description
Current Features
Right now, the reviewer of a PR has to wait the hour or so for the specific defconfig to build to validate the code does not break anything at compile time. Technically all 3 defconfigs should be built, which takes up to 4 hours right now.
Desired Additional Features
Github free minutes + free storage is too constrained for buildroot. They do hoever have self-hosted runners that integrate into the web ui just like the github-hosted ones. We should harness this configuration, along with the recently added #63, to reproduce builds both for CI checks and for creation of release binaries once releases are made as competition approaches.
Technically this could be done with a raspberrry pi plugged into a USB HDD of 128+ gb, along with a heatsink and/or aggressive temperature throttling on the pi. This would wear on the pi quick, so def we should use one of the old pi 3s.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the repository's existing GitHub Actions configuration and the changes referenced in issue #63. Define a self-hosted Raspberry Pi runner that can reproduce all three defconfig builds for CI and produce release binaries, then verify the workflow in GitHub's checks and release process.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions, raspberry-pi, shell
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd, infrastructure, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100