The CentOS CI is a public resource that open source based projects can use for integration tests on bare metal hardware. The goal of the project is to be a resource for communities that build on top of CentOS in order to enable them to perform better automated testing. Down the line this infrastructure will be developed into a full pipeline for building and testing containers. How do I get access and how do I get started?

There is a formal process for requesting access to the CI, but after you have access there is a need to understand the infrastructure a bit. The infrastructure currently is built using a bare metal provisioning mechanism, known as Duffy, that provisions machines based on REST api calls. It then uses Jenkins to kick off tests on the provisioned hardware, typically by pulling test repos from git and executing them. Test results can then be viewed at the ci.centos.org dashboard.

This talk will give an overview of the CI project and the related infrastructure as well as give a quick guide to getting started and writing your firsts tests on the platform.