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Removing HCS containers

The Windows workers in the windows-x86_64 pool have a habit of quietly falling off the cluster. The ocluster-worker service is still RUNNING, but the scheduler lists the worker as disconnected.

10 Jun 2026

Marc Elvers

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Emulating RISC-V workers when the hardware goes away

Scaleway provide the RISC-V workers for OCaml CI, and they have been down for about a week with no real evidence that they’ll be back anytime soon. I can’t provision any new ones as they are “temporarily out of stock”.

03 Jun 2026

Marc Elvers

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Work distribution with OCluster

We use OCluster to manage the build cluster for the CI services backing OCaml-CI and opam-repo-ci. However, it is a general-purpose tool and isn’t tied to being a build system; it can distribute any jobs across multiple worker machines.

09 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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