Hi Ted,

On 2021/05/07 16:47:05, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Martin,
> 
> This is exciting stuff that you are doing and very useful.
> 
> My thought is that of the options you describe, it seems like the travis
> option is a good first step because it is nearly trivial (just add the ci
> config file with a trivial build and test)

Agreed!
Using TravisCI for testing on Linux ARM64 would be the easiest!
I will use https://github.com/apache/drill/blob/1.17.0/.travis.yml as a 
starting point!

Regards,
Martin

> 
> Running builds on a remote builder nodes seems to me to increase
> dependencies that could cause debug actions at a later stage. I don't
> understand the level of stability that should be expected and I don't
> understand how certain that expectation should be.
> 
> I am not clear on CircleCI versus Github Actions versus travis. The
> timeouts sound better and you mention arm support, but I have no experience
> to guide.
> 
> Others probably have better and more complete thoughts than these.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:02 AM Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Drill developers,
> >
> > Recently I've tried to build Apache Drill on ARM64 hardware running on
> > Linux.
> > I have found few issues which are described in issue
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-7911
> >
> > I've created few Pull Requests with fixes for each issue:
> > - https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2217 - use TestContainers-MySQL
> > instead of Wix-Embedded-MySQL
> > - https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2218 - Disable Storage-Splunk unit
> > tests on Linux ARM64 because there is no Docker image of Splunk for
> > Linux/arm64
> > - https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2219 - Increase Max Direct Memory
> >
> > Now I would like to suggest adding CI testing on ARM64 to prevent
> > regressions in the future.
> > The problem is that GitHub Actions (the CI system used by Apache Drill)
> > does not yet support ARM64 architecture.
> >
> > Here are the possible solutions I am aware of:
> >
> > * use TravisCI only for running `mvn install` on Linux ARM64
> > Pros:
> > - TravisCI supports Linux ARM64 out of the box and the config is quite
> > simple
> > - Might be useful later if someone wants to add testing on Linux s390x
> > Cons:
> > - Use a second CI for such specific purpose
> >
> > * Use GitHub Actions to run the build at a remote Kubernetes cluster with
> > ARM64 nodes
> > More details about this approach could be read at
> > https://martin-grigorov.medium.com/githubactions-build-and-test-on-huaweicloud-arm64-af9d5c97b766
> > Disclaimer: I work for OpenLab Testing and Huawei sponsor us, so I can get
> > you a free account at HuaweiCloud for such setup.
> > The same setup could be used with any other Kubernetes provider!
> >
> > * Use CircleCI instead of GitHub Actions
> > Pros:
> > - native support for both x86_64 and aarch64  (
> > https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/arm-preview-docs)
> > - CircleCI allows connecting via SSH to a builder node. This way one can
> > debug issues
> > - higher job timeout (5h) -
> > https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/runner-installation/#runner-max_run_time.
> > Currently Github Actions often fail due to build timeouts of 90mins
> > - it is less crowded than the Apache organization at GitHub Actions (
> > https://ibb.co/RpFyQQy), so there is less wait time for the build
> > Cons:
> > - work is required to migrate from GitHub Actions to CircleCI
> >
> > I volunteer to do the work for any of these options. Just please let me
> > know which one is your preferred one!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin
> >
> 

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