Continuous integration and delivery for WoA

This page captures the requirements and challenges for deploying CI/CD for WoA open-source projects.

CI/CD requirement for Open source projects

Most of the open-source projects prefer to use publically available cloud instances for deploying CI/CD for their projects. There are no public cloud instances available for WoA yet. The only option at the moment is to use self-hosted runners with major CI/CD services but since they are hard to maintain open-source projects only accept them if there is a strong demand for the platform.

Cloud Services

Most open-source projects use one of the following for windows testing

• Github Actions

• Azure Pipeline

• Appveyor

• Travis

WoA instances need to be available with one of the above cloud services for deployment.

Virtual Environment Requirement

At least following toolchain and runtime are required for WoA instances in the cloud

• Windows 11 OS

• Visual Studio 2019

  • ARM64/x64/x86 C++ toolchain

• Visual Studio 2017 with ARM64 C++ toolchain

• LLVM (WoA)

• Python

• Rust

• Powershell

• Cmd

• NuGet

• CMake

• Git

• Ninja

• Mercurial

• Perl

Cloud Availability and Instances

There are many open-source projects which would require WoA instances for deploying CI/CD. Some of the main ones required for enabling the python ecosystem are given below but this list is growing very fast. Most of the repository has good CI traffic and we expect a huge number of instances are required for supporting them.