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Build statically linked binary for linux/amd64

Tomasz Maczukin requested to merge compile-statically-linked-bin-for-linux into master

⚠ ️NOTE THAT THIS FORK IS MAINTAINED FOR CRITICAL BUG FIXES AFFECTING RUNNING COSTS ONLY. NO OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ⚠️

What critical bug this MR is fixing?

Currently we use make build to build the Linux/amd64 binary. Unfortunately it compiles a dynamically linked binary (which doesn't work for example on Alpine Linux - https://dev.gitlab.org/cookbooks/packer-runner-machines/-/jobs/9092386).

This MR separates the build validate step, that builds the binary and runs tests, from the linux amd64 compilation step, which uses make build-x to compile the statically linked binary for this target OS/arch.

This is a blocker for https://dev.gitlab.org/cookbooks/packer-runner-machines/-/merge_requests/40/

How does this change help reduce cost of usage? What scale of cost reduction is it?

In what scenarios is this change usable with GitLab Runner's docker+machine executor?

Edited by Tomasz Maczukin

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