openQA Project (public)

Motivation¶

There is duplication in machine definitions in https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-openQA/blob/master/scenario-definitions.yaml#L8 and it's good to keep duplication to a minimum. Because this file serves as a showcase for how bigger projects could look like we should actually prevent this duplication. This could be solvable by just moving the common settings to "products" but the settings do not belong to the product, they are machine settings.

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: No machine setting duplication in https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-openQA/blob/master/scenario-definitions.yaml#L8

Suggestions¶

• Use YAML merge keys or consider re-usable machine "defaults" as an openQA feature. At best contrast both solutions for easy comparison
• Implementation proposal

    machines:
      64bit-2G:
        backend: qemu
        settings:
          <<: &M
            HDDSIZEGB: "20"
            QEMUCPU: host
            WORKER_CLASS: qemu_x86_64
          QEMURAM: "2048"
      64bit-4G:
        backend: qemu
        settings:
          <<: *M
          QEMURAM: "4096"