Merge pull request #383 from bastelfreak/macarne

Add blogpost for server sponsoring

_posts/2024-08-18-macarne-sponsoring.md

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+layout: post
+title: Macarne sponsors a buildserver
+date: 2024-08-18
+github_username: bastelfreak
+category: changelog
+---
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+Since a few days, [Macarne](https://macarne.com/), a bare metal solution provider, is sponsoring us a big AMD Epyc box.
+This system provides us 96 CPU cores, 128GB memory and 4TB of fast NVME storage.
+Our plan is to use this machine to host own GitHub runners. They will execute beaker jobs with real virtual machines.
+This allows us to test operating systems that don't work on Docker/Podman, like FreeBSD, but also lowlevel interactions with SystemD and SELinux that just doesn't work in containers.
+
+We're still looking for more CI nodes. If you can offer a dedicated server, or if you maintain a Puppet module that would benefit from beaker jobs with real VMs, please reach out to us via our IRC channel `#voxpupuli` on Libera or our mailinglist [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).