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⁠RIOT CI Container

⁠Setting up a murdock slave

⁠Overview

This guide has instructions on how to set up a slave for RIOT's Murdock 2 distributed build system.

The slave will run within a container and connect to Murdock's disque server via ssh.

It needs a user, mainly for holding the ssh configuration and some cache directories.

⁠Requirements

The current default configuration will need about 8gb RAM.

⁠Setup

1. create user

   $ sudo useradd -r -d /srv/murdock murdock

2. Extract murdock_slave_homedir.tgz into /srv (the archive contains ssh configuration)

   sudo tar -C /srv -xvf murdock_slave_homedir.tgz

3. make sure murdock user can ssh "murdock" without password

   $ sudo su -s /bin/sh - murdock $ ssh murdock && echo OK!

4a. Now either start the murdock slave manually:

$ sh murdock-slave-init.sh start

Or install systemd service:

4b. install helper script and systemd service

$ sudo cp murdock-slave-init.sh /usr/local/bin
$ sudo cp murdock-slave.service /etc/systemd/system
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable murdock-slave
$ sudo systemctl start murdock-slave