[GHC DevOps Group] FreeBSD in Tier 1

[Simon Marlow]

On 12 October 2017 at 12:31, Boespflug, Mathieu <m at tweag.io> wrote:

> > However, I was under the impression that CircleCI doesn't allow for this
> sort of usage. Perhaps I am mistaken?
>
> In their ToS you mean? Not that I've seen. What we did was, spawn an
> AWS machine at the start of a job, start a watch dog timer for the
> machine to self destruct and then run commands remotely on the distant
> AWS machine from CircleCI via SSH. Very low-tech. Not particularly
> robust. There are other ways to do this, hopefully more robust.
>

So we could have CircleCI call Jenkins? :)

Cheers
Simon


> --
> Mathieu Boespflug
> Founder at http://tweag.io.
>
>
> On 12 October 2017 at 13:23, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> > Facundo Domínguez <facundo.dominguez at tweag.io> writes:
> >
> >>> If someone were to step up to maintain FreeBSD, or any other
> non-Linux/amd64 platform, the day after we adopt CircleCI, what would we
> tell them?
> >>
> >> There is the possibility to have someone contribute a machine where
> >> the CI boxes can build the code and run the tests remotely.
> >>
> > If that is true then that certainly makes for a much nicer story.
> > However, I was under the impression that CircleCI doesn't allow for this
> > sort of usage. Perhaps I am mistaken?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > - Ben
> >
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