On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 2:55 AM Yibo Cai <yibo....@arm.com> wrote: > > Some updates, @kou, @kszucs > > There are two kinds of runners provided. One is dynamic vm created on > demand like travis, suitable for github action runner to verify pr. > Another kind is static vm with pre-deployed os, simply an arm64 aws > cloud instance. Looks we prefer static vm as a crossbow runner.
Correct. I'm not aware of any way to deploy a github-actions runner to ephemeral machines on demand. > > Please note for security reasons, the runner cannot be accessed directly > from internet. Inbound connection requests are rejected. It can initiate > connections to other hosts. Is it okay for crossbow? Shouldn't be a problem, see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#communication-between-self-hosted-runners-and-github > Any security concern from crossbow side? Crossbow can only be triggered by trusted contributors, so with reasonable precautions we can maintain a low risk setup. > > On 10/22/21 10:07 AM, Yibo Cai wrote: > > Thanks. I'm applying for the runner. Will update when ready. > > > > On 10/22/21 6:31 AM, Krisztián Szűcs wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:53 PM Sutou Kouhei <k...@clear-code.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> It's useful! > >>> > >>> We have two options to use this: > >>> > >>> 1. Use this on https://github.com/apache/arrow > >>> 2. Use this on https://github.com/ursacomputing/crossbow/ > >>> > >>> 1. is for CI of each commit/pull request. > >>> > >>> 2. is for CI of daily build and "@github-actions crossbow > >>> submit ..." comment in pull request. > >>> > >>> (We can choose both of them.) > >>> > >>> If we choose 1., we need to ask INFRA for adding new > >>> self-hosted runners. Because we don't have admin permission > >>> of apache/arrow. Could you show a URL how to use the > >>> self-hosted runners? > >>> > >>> If we choose 2., we will able to do all needed work by > >>> ourselves because we have admin permission of > >>> ursacomputing/crossbow/. > >> We already have a self-hosted runner configured for crossbow where we > >> build the Apple M1 wheels. > >> > >> I think we should start to configure the new runners for crossbow and > >> work out the details, and then later (if we choose to) get the > >> required registration tokens from INFRA. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> -- > >>> kou > >>> > >>> In <2a0074c7-562c-3a41-8763-6e1d4ac17...@arm.com> > >>> "Arm64 github runner" on Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:43:16 +0800, > >>> Yibo Cai <yibo....@arm.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> We have free Arm64 instances (maintained by Arm) as github action > >>>> self-hosted runners for open source projects. > >>>> Arrow Arm CI is currently running on Travis. Is an additional Arm64 > >>>> runner useful? I think we can build and verify Arm64 Linux releases on > >>>> it. > >>>> > >>>> Yibo
