buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws v5.1.0

Elastic CI Stack for AWS v5.1.0

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Added

• Experimental support for ARM instance types (linux only) #758 (yob)
• Support up to four instance types and mixed combinations of Spot/OnDemand instances #710 (yob)
  • The InstanceType stack parameter can now be a CSV with up to 4 types
  • The new OnDemandPercentage stack parameter can be reduced from 100% (the default) to allow some Spot instances

Changed

• Update Buildkite Agent to v3.26.0 #778 (JuanitoFatas)
• Speed up secret downloads from S3 (from ~8 seconds to under 1 second) #772 (pda)
• ECR plugin now has its own log group header to make run time visible #773 (pda)

Fixed

• Avoid IAM changes for some kinds of stack updates (like changing InstanceType) #781 (yob)
• Improved documentation
  • Add BUILDKITE_PLUGIN_S3_SECRETS_BUCKET_PREFIX to README #775 (maatthc)
  • Remove outdated advice re AgentsPerInstance #760 (niceking)

Upgrading

Perform a CloudFormation stack update with the following URL:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/buildkite-aws-stack/v5.1.0/aws-stack.yml

If you want to launch a new stack, you can use this link (make sure not to use your production AWS account, create a new one for CI):

Documentation

See the Readme for this release.