[QA] CI response time investigation and improvements

[Greg Grossmeier]

<quote name="Legoktm" date="2017-04-04" time="13:09:35 -0700">
> Hi,
> 
> On 03/23/2017 03:36 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
> > But yes, progress is still being made. There isn't (yet?) a single
> > Phabricator project to track this project as a wholistic thing, but some
> > are:
> > 
> > * #Release Pipeline https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release_pipeline/
> > * #Prod-Kubernetes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/2290/
> > * #Kubernetes-production-experiment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kubernetes-production-experiment/
> 
> Those seem significantly more complicated than what I was thinking of. I
> was referring to using docker to create clean test environments for our
> current CI infra instead of relying on entirely new VMs to do so.

Ah, yeah, so this: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/347130/

(Proof of Concept, not ready for prime time, no warranty, caveat emptor
etc etc)

Greg

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