Build infrastructure

The following pages contain implementation details of various parts of the build infrastructure. They are not of general need, but serve as reference to operate the system.

You can find further information on how aliBuild works in the aliBuild documentation.

Further troubleshooting information is privately available in the repository:

https://gitlab.cern.ch/ALICEDevOps/aliops.git/

Tasks

• Release process AliRoot / AliPhysics
• Release process O2PDPSuite
• O2 stable branches
• Nightly builds
• CVMFS releases
• Testing of Pull Requests (continuous integration)
• Build Logs
• Release Publishing
• RelVal
• AliBI User Guide
• Setting up automatic release builds
• Generation of RPMs
• Known tradeoffs
• Building Docker images with Packer

Infrastructure

• Using Nomad, Consul and Vault
• Nomad cluster setup
• MacOS builder setup
• Virtual and physical machines
• AliEn VoBox
• Web Frontend
• Jenkins
• AliBuild S3 Repository
• AliBI
• Setting up automatic release builds