Provide RHEL 9 based jenkins slave image

[liangxia]

Hi, would it be possible to provide a RHEL 9 based Jenkins slave image ? Thank you.

[divyansh42]

Hi @liangxia
We are working on it. Will keep you posted once we have it.

[arrfab]

We (CentOS) are currently also interested into that : we have an openshift cluster deployed , with Jenkins from official catalog, but our workload is using a modified container to satisfy dependencies for our tests.

As it's for public CI , we just reused the original origin-jenkins-agent-base:latest container, which is based from UBI8, and just add needed .repo from CentOS Stream 8
As Stream 8 is going EOL end of May (so approaching soon) we'd like to rebase to newer/refreshed upstream origin-jenkins-agen-base image, itself built from UBI9, so that we can just "convert" it to Stream 9 and still have our existing CI tenants (including other Red Hat upstream projects) be able to transparently have up2date container for the ansible orchestration tasks.

Do we have a kind of ETA for the rebased agent image ? We'd be more than happy to give it a try somewhere and report feedback here

[gpei]

@divyansh42 Hi, do we have any update on this?

[divyansh42]

@gpei Due to changing priorities, I am not working on this anymore.
@sayan-biswas @ramessesii2 should be the right person to provide further updates on this.

[ramessesii2]

Hey @gpei, there's WIP #1769 related to this. Though we're yet to prioritize it for completion.
cc @avinal

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[arrfab]

wondering if that's still somehow in scope somehow.
We'd appreciate any kind of ETA or even answer about "no, we'll never implement it or even stop completely jenkins containers" so that users can eventually plan something about it.
TIA :)

[avinal]

Hey @arrfab, yes, this story is still on our backlog. I cannot give any ETA on it yet.