Cloud Native: How Ampere Is Improving Nightly Arm64 Builds

During KubeCon NA 2023, CNCF announced the launch of a new project aimed at helping the CNCF project create an arm64/Ampere runner, thus making its nighttime native arm64 builds safer, more efficient use of resources and significantly faster speeds.

The project is designed to solve three main problems: According to the GitHub documentation, it is not safe to run a GitHub self-hosted runner for an open source project, as side effects may be left after the build. This in itself is enough to prompt CNCF projects to find better night-time build methods, and in addition, builds are often over-configured, which wastes community resources and is misconfigured. Therefore, the project construction takes too long to complete within a 6-hour window.

CNCF, Ampere Computing (arm64 server chip manufacturer) and Equinix (hosting company) contacted OpenFaaS, the creator of Actuated, to explore possible solutions. Eight projects were initially selected for the first round of testing of the project.

Two months after the project started, Dave Neary, Director of Development Relations at Ampere Computing, sat down with Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Linux Foundation, Ed Vielmetti, Equinix open source developer partner manager, and Alex Ellis, CEO of OpenFaaS, to discuss the project. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Including the reasons for its creation, the work completed, and the operation status.

The following are some project results released by Dave Neary in the Ampere arm64 server community, and team members also discussed this:

• OpenTelemetry has added Arm64 support and Arm64 CI builds
• By using Actuated, up to five etcd contributors can now focus their time and energy elsewhere
• Pilot project has so far run over 70,000 minutes of CI tasks on Equinix-hosted Ampere servers
• Many improvements in reporting allow projects to adjust the VM size according to their own needs, manage the "shocking effect" problems caused by weekly Dependabot runs, and quickly report when there are major changes in the build time, so as to promptly discover the Question
• The key building blocks of the container ecosystem (container runtime runc, cri-o and containerd) now have a safer software supply chain

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