This is already used in multiple CIs, and will soon become a requirement
for most CIs, i.e when we migrate depends packages to use CMake, for
example:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21778#issuecomment-1885576324.
Some of the CIs in 21778 are failing because CMake isn't available, so
just break this out and make CMake globally available.
This change aims to:
1) Remove our own `CCACHE_SIZE` environment variable that violates
Ccache's `CCACHE_*` namespace.
2) Introduce the `CCACHE_MAXSIZE` environment variable that is
documented since v3.3, which makes its usage consistent with other ones,
such as `CCACHE_DIR` and `CCACHE_NOHASHDIR`.
DOCKER in names is confusingly used as synonym for "image", "container",
and "ci". Fix the confusion by picking the term that fits the context.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
ren() { sed -i "s:$1:$2:g" $( git grep -l "$1" ) ; }
ren DOCKER_PACKAGES CI_BASE_PACKAGES
# This better reflects that they are the common base for all CI
# containers.
ren DOCKER_ID CI_CONTAINER_ID
# This is according to the documentation of "--detach , -d: Run
# container in background and print container ID".
ren DOCKER_NAME_TAG CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG
# This avoids confusing with CONTAINER_NAME and clarifies that it is an
# image.
ren DOCKER_ADMIN CI_CONTAINER_CAP
# This clarifies that it is a capability added to the container.
ren DOCKER_CI_CMD_PREFIX CI_EXEC_CMD_PREFIX
# This brings it in line with the CI_EXEC naming.
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
Our CI tasks are run by CirrusCI in Docker containers in a Google
Compute Engine based Kubernetes environment. These containers have
limited capabilities - especially CAP_SYS_ADMIN is missing. See
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/23296#issuecomment-1024920845
We need elevated privileges to hook into the USDT tracepoints. We use a
CirrusCI "compute_engine_instance" (a VM, not a container) where we have
the required privileges. The ubunut-mininmal-2204-lts was choosen with
debian-11 being an alternative. Both pack an outdated 'bpfcc-tools'
package (v0.18.0) from 2020. This version prints warnings to stderr
during BPF bytecode compilation, which causes our functional test runner
to fail. This is fixed in newer verison.
Until debian-12 or a newer Ubuntu release is avaliable as image in GCE
(https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/os-details), we use a
third-party and untrusted PPA that releases up-to-date versions of the
package.
The official iovisor (authors of BCC) PPA is outdated too. An
alternative would be to compile BCC from source in the CI.
Co-authored-by: MacroFake <falke.marco@gmail.com>
