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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-#
-# For help and usage information, simply execute the script w/o any arguments.
-#
-# This script is intended to be run by Red Hat podman developers who need
-# to debug problems specifically related to Cirrus-CI automated testing.
-# It requires that you have been granted prior access to create VMs in
-# google-cloud.  For non-Red Hat contributors, VMs are available as-needed,
-# with supervision upon request.
-
-set -e
-
-SCRIPT_FILEPATH=$(realpath "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")
-SCRIPT_DIRPATH=$(dirname "$SCRIPT_FILEPATH")
-REPO_DIRPATH=$(realpath "$SCRIPT_DIRPATH/../")
-
-# Help detect what get_ci_vm container called this script
-GET_CI_VM="${GET_CI_VM:-0}"
-in_get_ci_vm() {
-    if ((GET_CI_VM == 0)); then
-        echo "Error: $1 is not intended for use in this context"
-        exit 2
-    fi
-}
-
-# get_ci_vm APIv1 container entrypoint calls into this script
-# to obtain required repo. specific configuration options.
-if [[ "$1" == "--config" ]]; then
-    in_get_ci_vm "$1" # handles GET_CI_VM==0 case
-    case "$GET_CI_VM" in
-    1)
-        cat << EOF
-DESTDIR="/var/tmp/go/src/github.com/containers/podman"
-UPSTREAM_REPO="https://github.com/containers/podman.git"
-CI_ENVFILE="/etc/ci_environment"
-GCLOUD_PROJECT="libpod-218412"
-GCLOUD_IMGPROJECT="libpod-218412"
-GCLOUD_CFG="libpod"
-GCLOUD_ZONE="${GCLOUD_ZONE:-us-central1-a}"
-GCLOUD_CPUS="2"
-GCLOUD_MEMORY="4Gb"
-GCLOUD_DISK="200"
-EOF
-        ;;
-    2)
-        # get_ci_vm APIv2 configuration details
-        echo "AWS_PROFILE=containers"
-        ;;
-    *)
-        echo "Error: Your get_ci_vm container image is too old."
-        ;;
-    esac
-elif [[ "$1" == "--setup" ]]; then
-    in_get_ci_vm "$1"
-    unset GET_CI_VM
-    # get_ci_vm container entrypoint calls us with this option on the
-    # Cirrus-CI environment instance, to perform repo.-specific setup.
-    cd $REPO_DIRPATH
-    echo "+ Loading ./hack/ci/lib.sh" > /dev/stderr
-    source ./hack/ci/lib.sh
-    echo "+ Mimicking .cirrus.yml build_task" > /dev/stderr
-    make install.tools
-    make binaries
-    make docs
-    echo "+ Running environment setup" > /dev/stderr
-    ./hack/ci/setup_environment.sh
-else
-    # Pass this repo and CLI args into container for VM creation/management
-    mkdir -p $HOME/.config/gcloud/ssh
-    mkdir -p $HOME/.aws
-    podman run -it --rm \
-        --tz=local \
-        -e NAME="$USER" \
-        -e SRCDIR=/src \
-        -e GCLOUD_ZONE="$GCLOUD_ZONE" \
-        -e A_DEBUG="${A_DEBUG:-0}" \
-        -v $REPO_DIRPATH:/src:O \
-        -v $HOME/.config/gcloud:/root/.config/gcloud:z \
-        -v $HOME/.config/gcloud/ssh:/root/.ssh:z \
-        -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws:z \
-        quay.io/libpod/get_ci_vm:latest "$@"
-fi