containers
Consider a custom GH runner image for bootc systems
https://github.com/orgs/github/projects/4247?pane=issue&itemId=88044286&issue=github%7Croadmap%7C1019
One of the problems we experienced in universal blue over the years is that waiting for the podman stack to be updated in ubuntu runners on github is maddening. When I heard of this feature I thought of an ubuntu-cloud base image, then add the PPAs for podman, buildah, and whatever you need to make a bootc-enabled OS.
And then that's it. This would alleviate some problems:
- We need access to those podman suite features, everything depends on that stack being up to date.
- We're running out of room on github runners, especially nvidia, this would give bootc-on-github orgs more breathing room
- The space saving actions do add minutes to each build, this way would be much faster for everyone.
It'd be awesome to host that here in the upstream repo. It's not GA yet so I'm filing this in the idea factory for now. Or this might make more sense in a podman org? We also don't know how it works in practice so this is more of an aspirational issue. 😄
We could do a preview: true in the action so that we could fire off runners with prerelease versions of the podman stack. This would pay great dividends over time I think!
One of the problems we experienced in universal blue over the years is that waiting for the podman stack to be updated in ubuntu runners on github is maddening.
Yes, for sure. I recently consolidated bits for this in https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/blob/main/.github/actions/bootc-ubuntu-setup/action.yml in this repo.
CC also https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17362
Actually @castrojo can we ask Github to allow the CNCF enterprise org to have access to this feature so we can test it out and also influence how it works?
Obviously as a maintainer of bootc I have pretty strong opinions on how we build Linux systems and also as a consumer of it.
xref https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C014YQ8CDCG/p1760972382153929