1531916 - add ubuntu docker image support in kind.yml for building and managing our test images

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Task Configuration, enhancement)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Currently we have support in kind.yml for different type of debian based configurations we use:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/ci/packages/kind.yml

there is a task for different packages we want to install, etc.

Given that, it would simplify the management of our test images that rely on ubuntu 16.04 + many packages.

We don't have support now, but in reviewing code in bug 1456855, it was mentioned as a task we should consider doing before revisiting these docker images.

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Joel: is the request here to be able to specify the base docker image for tasks, so you could bake-in more of the packages and avoid the per-task setup time?

Comment 2

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

I am not really sure, this was more of an issue where rebuilding the ubuntu image is non deterministic. Currently :egao is working upgrading the image to be Debian instead of Ubuntu.

Comment 3

[Edwin Takahashi (:egao | infrequent contributor)]

As Joel alluded to I am working on migrating our linux test image from a 'hacked' Ubuntu 16.04 image to Debian 10.

The tracking bug for that is 1565332.