Zuul
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Basics 4 questions
- Describe shortly what is Zuul
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From Zuul's docs: "Zuul is a Project Gating System. That’s like a CI or CD system, but the focus is on testing the future state of code repositories...
Zuul itself is a service which listens to events from various code review systems, executes jobs based on those events, and reports the results back to the code review system."
- What is Nodepool and how is it related to Zuul?
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"Nodepool is a system for managing test node resources. It supports launching single-use test nodes from cloud providers as well as managing access to pre-defined pre-existing nodes."
"Zuul uses a separate component called Nodepool to provide the resources to run jobs. Nodepool works with several cloud providers as well as statically defined nodes (again, simultaneously)."
- What is a Pipeline in Zuul?
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A pipeline in Zuul is a workflow. This workflow can be executed based on different events - when a change is submitted to a project, when it's merged, etc.
The pipeline itself can be applied on one or more different projects (= repositories in hosted or private source control)
- What is a project in Zuul?
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