Re: [prometheus-developers] Re: Adding Gitpod environments to prometheus/prometheus (as CI checks and for people to get started)

2020-07-26 Thread Julien Pivotto
The rules, TSDB, scrapes, are not that easy to test in such an environment. They often require external exporters. Even locally the tests are the easiest way to do that. Service discovery requires service discovery setups. The part where that is easy is the react UI which we already deploy on net

Re: [prometheus-developers] Re: Adding Gitpod environments to prometheus/prometheus (as CI checks and for people to get started)

2020-07-26 Thread Augustin Husson
Hello, So far what I understood is that you have two things: 1. The possibility of coding online using a tablet 2. Having an online environment where your PR has been built. And like that you can play with the prometheus instance and test it smoothly. ( I know I reduced a lot the features provide

Re: [prometheus-developers] Re: Adding Gitpod environments to prometheus/prometheus (as CI checks and for people to get started)

2020-07-26 Thread Julien Pivotto
Hello, While getting new contributors is fundamental for any open source projects, I would be on the side to explore other possibilities than this one. Let me explain my concerns. First of all, that is an extra tool. I am not a fan on adding extra tools on top of GitHub, like gerrithub or other r

[prometheus-developers] Re: Adding Gitpod environments to prometheus/prometheus (as CI checks and for people to get started)

2020-07-26 Thread Julius Volz
+CC Sven from Gitpod On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 2:40 PM Julius Volz wrote: > Hi, > > I got to know the people from Gitpod.io (https://www.gitpod.io/), and > when I learned about their capability to not only use Gitpod as a regular > online web-based dev environment, but to create ad-hoc environment

[prometheus-developers] Adding Gitpod environments to prometheus/prometheus (as CI checks and for people to get started)

2020-07-26 Thread Julius Volz
Hi, I got to know the people from Gitpod.io (https://www.gitpod.io/), and when I learned about their capability to not only use Gitpod as a regular online web-based dev environment, but to create ad-hoc environments based off PR branches as CI checks, I thought it would be a really neat thing to h