| Commit message (Expand) | Author | Age |
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| * | Add a new AWS backend using Amazon Machine Images•••The existing AWS backend uses system containers backed on to the AWS
hosted NFS service (EFS). This has some advantages, but also some
disadvantages.
Using the EFS service allows building a container on one instance,
with the state being held on the EFS, and then launching a new
instance to run the container. Using EFS also provides persistence, at
least beyond individual EC2 instances.
However, build performance when using EFS is poor compared with a
local store without the overhead of the network latency. Additionally,
the startup speed of the container running off EFS is slow compared to
local storage.
This backend doesn't use EFS, instead the Guix store sits on instance
storage. Rather than using a system container for a Mini Environment,
an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is built instead. The fast local storage
makes builds faster, and using EBS storage for the Mini Envirnoments
as well as not having the overhead of starting Ubuntu, then starting
the container also makes startup faster.
| Christopher Baines | 2019-05-30 |
| * | Guard against deleting backends in the controller | Christopher Baines | 2019-05-30 |
| * | Start tracking which store paths are in use•••This will enable garbage collection of the Guix store, without
removing things that are still in use.
| Christopher Baines | 2019-01-01 |
| * | Support 'Stopping' the AWS backend•••Which means just destroying the build machine.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-06-23 |
| * | Change the backend perform action controller•••Redirect to the show page, rather than rendering it, to keep the URL
more consistent.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-06-23 |
| * | Support refreshing the state of backends | Christopher Baines | 2018-06-23 |
| * | Add support for managing Terraform AWS backends from the show page | Christopher Baines | 2018-06-23 |
| * | Support managing the libvirt backend from the show page | Christopher Baines | 2018-06-23 |
| * | Handle SSH keys via the database•••This makes it more explicit, and works around Terraform being
unpredictable when dealing with SSH agents.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-06-23 |
| * | Change how the EFS File System is handled•••For the AWS backend.
Bring it in to the Terraform configuration for the backend, where
previously only the id was known. Also, alter the provisioning so that
it can handle an empty EFS file system.
This reduces the amount of manual setup required for AWS.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-06-03 |
| * | Add extra fields to the Terraform AWS backend | Christopher Baines | 2018-05-03 |
| * | Improve the support for Libvirt•••Separate out the backend things, like the virtual network, from the
mini environment. This makes it easier to have resources shared
between mini environments.
Also handle the deployment of this new backend related Terraform
configuration.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-04-12 |
| * | License under the AGPLv3+ | Christopher Baines | 2018-04-12 |
| * | Add domains to backends, and rework build jobs•••Add a domain to the libvirt and AWS Terraform backends. Along the way,
improve the backend controllers and views, and rework the build jobs,
simplifying them in to a single new class GovukGuix::BuildJob, which
uses configuration from the respective backend.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-04-03 |
| * | Improve AWS backend support | Christopher Baines | 2018-03-29 |
| * | Add backend controllers, models and views•••Also annotate existing models.
| Christopher Baines | 2018-03-29 |