forgejo-docs/developer/infrastructure.md

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Codeberg

Codeberg provides a LXC container with 48GB RAM, 24 threads and SSD drive to be used for the CI. A Forgejo Runner is installed in /opt/runner and registered with a token obtained from https://codeberg.org/forgejo. It does not allow running privileged containers or LXC containers for security reasons. The runner is intended to be used for pull requests, for instance in https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo.

Octopuce

Octopuce provides hardware managed by the devops team. It can be accessed via a VPN which provides a DNS for the octopuce.forgejo.org internal domain.

The VPN is deployed and upgraded using the following Enough command line:

$ mkdir -p ~/.enough
$ git clone https://forgejo.octopuce.forgejo.org/forgejo/enough ~/.enough/octopuce.forgejo.org
$ enough --domain octopuce.forgejo.org service create openvpn

OVH

https://code.forgejo.org runs on an OVH virtual machine using the same OVH account used for the forgejo.org domain name and mails.

It is deployed and upgraded using the following Enough command line:

$ mkdir -p ~/.enough
$ git clone https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/<secret repository> ~/.enough/code.forgejo.org
$ enough --domain code.forgejo.org service create --host bind-host forgejo

Upgrading only Forgejo:

$ enough --domain code.forgejo.org playbook -- --limit bind-host,localhost --private-key ~/.enough/code.forgejo.org/infrastructure_key venv/share/enough/playbooks/forgejo/forgejo-playbook.yml

Login in the machine hosting the Forgejo instance for debugging purposes:

enough --domain code.forgejo.org ssh bind-host

Installing Forgejo runners

Preparing the LXC hypervisor

git clone https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/lxc-helpers/

lxc-helpers.sh lxc_prepare_environment
sudo lxc-helpers.sh lxc_install_lxc_inside 10.120.13

Creating an LXC container

lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_create forgejo-runners
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_start forgejo-runners
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_user_install forgejo-runners $(id -u) $USER
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_container_run forgejo-runners -- sudo --user debian bash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y wget docker.io emacs-nox
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER # exit & enter again for the group to be active
lxc-helpers.sh lxc_prepare_environment
sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/forgejo-runner https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner/releases/download/v2.0.4/forgejo-runner-amd64
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/forgejo-runner
echo 'export TERM=vt100' >> .bashrc

Creating a runner

Multiple runners can co-exist on the same machine. To keep things organized they are located in a directtory that is the same as the url from which the token is obtained. For instance DIR=codeberg.org/forgejo-integration means that the token was obtained from the https://codeberg.org/forgejo-integration organization.

If a runner only provides unprivileged docker containers, the labels should be LABELS=docker:docker://node:16-bullseye,ubuntu-latest:docker://node:16-bullseye.

If a runner provides LXC containers and unprivileged docker containers, the labels should be LABELS=docker:docker://node:16-bullseye,self-hosted.

mkdir -p $DIR ; cd $DIR
forgejo-runner generate-config > config.yml
## edit config.yml
## Obtain a $TOKEN from https://$DIR
forgejo-runner register --no-interactive --token $TOKEN --name runner --instance https://codeberg.org --labels $LABELS
forgejo-runner --config config.yml daemon |& cat -v > runner.log &

codeberg.org config.yml

• fetch_timeout: 30s # because it can be slow at times
• fetch_interval: 60s # because there is throttling and 429 replies will mess up the runner
• cache enabled: false # because codeberg.org is still v1.19