[action-runners] Add k8s action runner with KVM support#1108
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Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: We don't want to use buildbuddy from github actions directly because of potential egress/ingress costs from github actions to gcloud. Instead once #1108 lands, self-hosted runners will have access to buildbuddy. This PR replaces adding the buildbuddy api key with adding github specific bazelrc options. Type of change: /kind test-infra Test Plan: Tested that these configs work in #1054 Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: We don't want to use buildbuddy from github actions directly because of potential egress/ingress costs from github actions to gcloud. Instead once pixie-io#1108 lands, self-hosted runners will have access to buildbuddy. This PR replaces adding the buildbuddy api key with adding github specific bazelrc options. Type of change: /kind test-infra Test Plan: Tested that these configs work in pixie-io#1054 Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: Adds a new k8s github action runner with KVM support. Also adds autoscalers for the runners. The current autoscaler is poll-based, if this becomes an issue we can switch to a push based autoscaler with webhooks, but its significantly more effort. Type of change: /kind test-infra Test Plan: Tested that `qemu` based BPF tests can run on the new kvm runners. Also tested that the autoscaler works in a reasonable time frame. Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: We don't want to use buildbuddy from github actions directly because of potential egress/ingress costs from github actions to gcloud. Instead once pixie-io#1108 lands, self-hosted runners will have access to buildbuddy. This PR replaces adding the buildbuddy api key with adding github specific bazelrc options. Type of change: /kind test-infra Test Plan: Tested that these configs work in pixie-io#1054 Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: Adds a new k8s github action runner with KVM support. Also adds autoscalers for the runners. The current autoscaler is poll-based, if this becomes an issue we can switch to a push based autoscaler with webhooks, but its significantly more effort. Type of change: /kind test-infra Test Plan: Tested that `qemu` based BPF tests can run on the new kvm runners. Also tested that the autoscaler works in a reasonable time frame. Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: We don't want to use buildbuddy from github actions directly because of potential egress/ingress costs from github actions to gcloud. Instead once pixie-io#1108 lands, self-hosted runners will have access to buildbuddy. This PR replaces adding the buildbuddy api key with adding github specific bazelrc options. Type of change: /kind test-infra Test Plan: Tested that these configs work in pixie-io#1054 Signed-off-by: James Bartlett <jamesbartlett@pixielabs.ai>
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Summary: Adds a new k8s github action runner with KVM support. Also adds autoscalers for the runners. The current autoscaler is poll-based, if this becomes an issue we can switch to a push based autoscaler with webhooks, but its significantly more effort.
Type of change: /kind test-infra
Test Plan: Tested that
qemubased BPF tests can run on the new kvm runners. Also tested that the autoscaler works in a reasonable time frame.