Merge pull request #137 from lluiscampos/qa-duty-ci-chores

ci: Miscellaneous improvements

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -8,12 +8,25 @@ stages:
   - test
   - publish
 
+variables:
+  # mender-artifact version for tests
+  MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION: 4.0.0
+
+default:
+  tags:
+    # Don't run gitlab hosted runners by default
+    - hetzner-amd-beefy
+
 .test:static:
   stage: test
-  image: ubuntu:24.04
+  image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/ubuntu:24.04
   needs: []
   before_script:
     - apt-get update && apt-get install -y git clang-format pcregrep
+  tags:
+    # QA-866: Ubuntu 24.04 image cannot properly run on our private runners.
+    # Temporarely setting it to GitLab Hosted runners
+    - saas-linux-medium-amd64
 
 test:static:license:
   extends: .test:static
@@ -30,7 +43,7 @@ test:static:code:
 
 test:smoke-build:posix:
   stage: test
-  image: debian:12-slim
+  image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/debian:12-slim
   needs: []
   before_script:
     - apt-get update && apt-get install -yqq
@@ -43,7 +56,7 @@ test:smoke-build:posix:
 
 test:smoke-build:weak:
   stage: test
-  image: debian:12-slim
+  image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/debian:12-slim
   needs: []
   before_script:
     - apt-get update && apt-get install -yqq
@@ -54,29 +67,21 @@ test:smoke-build:weak:
     - cmake --build build --parallel $(nproc --all)
     - ./build/mender-mcu-client.elf --help
 
-.test:mender-artifact:template:
-  variables:
-    DEBIAN_RELEASE: bookworm
-    MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION: 3.11.2
-
 test:unit:
-  extends: .test:mender-artifact:template
   stage: test
-  image: debian:12-slim
+  image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/debian:12-slim
   before_script:
     - apt update && apt install -yyq
       cmake git make pkg-config python3
       libcurl4-openssl-dev libcjson-dev
       g++ lcov wget
     # Fetch and install mender-artifact
-    - wget "https://downloads.mender.io/repos/debian/pool/main/m/mender-artifact/mender-artifact_${MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION}-1+debian+${DEBIAN_RELEASE}_amd64.deb"
+    - wget "https://downloads.mender.io/repos/debian/pool/main/m/mender-artifact/mender-artifact_${MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION}-1+debian+bookworm_amd64.deb"
       -O mender-artifact.deb &&
       dpkg --install mender-artifact.deb
   script:
     - cmake -D COVERAGE=ON tests/unit/
     - make --jobs=$(nproc --all) --keep-going coverage
-  tags:
-    - hetzner-amd-beefy
   artifacts:
     expire_in: 2w
     reports:
@@ -85,16 +90,15 @@ test:unit:
       - coverage.lcov
 
 .test:static:template:
-  extends: .test:mender-artifact:template
   stage: test
-  image: ubuntu:24.04
+  image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/ubuntu:24.04
   before_script:
     - apt update && apt install -yyq
       cmake git make pkg-config python3
       libcurl4-openssl-dev libcjson-dev
       clang wget
     # Fetch and install mender-artifact
-    - wget "https://downloads.mender.io/repos/debian/pool/main/m/mender-artifact/mender-artifact_${MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION}-1+debian+${DEBIAN_RELEASE}_amd64.deb"
+    - wget "https://downloads.mender.io/repos/debian/pool/main/m/mender-artifact/mender-artifact_${MENDER_ARTIFACT_VERSION}-1+ubuntu+noble_amd64.deb"
       -O mender-artifact.deb &&
       dpkg --install mender-artifact.deb
     - export CC=$(which clang)
@@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ test:static:release:
 
 publish:tests:
   stage: publish
-  image: python:3.11
+  image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_DIRECT_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/python:3.11
   dependencies:
     - test:unit
   before_script: