QA (public) » openQA Project (public) » openQA Infrastructure (public)

Motivation¶

There is a new machine which we should setup in FC Basement as openQA bare-metal test host, similar to what is done in #150830. We should take over this machine, mount it in FC Basement and bring it into OSD production as bare-metal test machine and ensure testing related squads follow-up with specific testing, e.g. just run the default scenario(s) on the specific host.

Email from Andreas

NVIDIA is now finally shipping to me
another NVIDIA IGX Orin Developer Kit (workstation form-factor, with BMC and optional ConnectX-7 NIC with QSFPs) for QE.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/edge-computing/products/igx/

The purpose would be two-fold: bare-metal testing of SLES and SL Micro, and installation/functional testing of SUSE SolidDriver KMPs plus NVIDIA
proprietary libraries/containers (unfinished docs: https://github.com/SUSE/doc-modular/pull/339)

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: One new ARM server NVIDIA IGX Orin is used in production in openqa.suse.de as bare-metal test host
• AC2: Our inventory management system is up-to-date

Suggestions¶

• Read what we did in #150830 because we will do something very similar here just for another machine
• Pickup the machine from the Frankencampus Ralf Unger's office, bring it to FC Basement
• Name it nvidia-ixg-orin01
• Mount and connect the machine
• Include the configuration, in particular network, in our inventory management system, e.g. in https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=rack&rack_id=19186 on top of nvidia-ixg-orin01
• Read out MAC addresses and add details in https://gitlab.suse.de/OPS-Service/salt/ for DHCP/DNS
• Add machines bare-metal test machines in OSD, i.e. include in https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-pillars-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/workerconf.sls, e.g. with experimental worker classes, test, then make production worker classes
• Talk with testing squads about extending test scope covering this machine
• Ensure testing implementation is planned or completed accordingly

• Ensure our inventory management system is up-to-date

• Add a special worker class "nvidia_orin" and ensure that testing related squads run tests on that worker class, e.g. default@nvidia_orin