Managing RISC-V compute machines as GitLab CI/CD runners

What does this setup do

This infrastructure is for managing RISC-V boards as the GitLab runners. This setup works almost out of the box to:

• Set up the RISC-V boards with the infrastructure
• Registering RISC-V board as CI/CD compute machines in the GitLab projects
• Unregistering the boards as runners
• Removing the boards from this infrastructure

Getting Started

Pre-requisites

• The RISC-V boards which are to be added to this infrastructure have to be accessible through SSH private key with root (for installing packages and installing gitlab runner as systemd service) user and a new user called gitlab-runner-user
• The gitlab-runner-user should be added as a non-sudo user in the board
• python3 should be installed on the board as well as on the machine running this flow as a system-wide package
• pip should be installed on the compute machine running this flow

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

Starting the webflow

Web flow can be started by executing the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/alitariq4589/riscv-gitlab-ci-infra.git
cd riscv-gitlab-ci-infra
pip install -r requirements.txt
./start.py

After running this command, the web UI can be accessible through web browser at localhost:5000.

Contributing

We welcome any contribution to this flow. If you find any issues, feel free to create an issue.

Need to add a new feature? Create a PR

Be sure to read the complete documentation of this infrastructure