infrastructure January 2014

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Hello World!
by Sean O'Reilly 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi Infra, My name is Sean O'Reilly and I would like to get involved and put something back. I am an RHCE currently working as an Infrastructure Engineer in the travel industry. I have been working with linux for more than 15 years mostly with Red Hat and it's derivatives but, have supported most other flavours at one time or another. I can spare 6 - 8 hours per week and look forward to getting to know you all. Regards Sean

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2014 dreaming
by Kevin Fenzi 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Greetings. I meant to send this out sooner, but with the Fedora 20 release things have been crazy. :) Now that we are nearing the end of 2013, I think it might be a nice time to think ahead to next year. What would you love to see happen? What would you like to work on making happen? (even if it's not practical resource wise or logistically) Here's a list of some of mine: * 0 downtime upgrades. By this I mean we can update and reboot all our servers (probibly in some specific order with specific actions between) and not have to schedule any downtime or notify users anything is going on. This means at least that we have db replication/failover working and 2 of everything. * Migration to ansible fully done, with all hosts moved over and rebuilt and working. * Migration to RHEL7. :) * Ticket queue down to a very small set. When I first started it was gigantic, then I closed/fixed/redirected a lot of the ticket and we started going down in number, but over the last year or so we have hovered between 140-150. * Migration to hyperkitty/mailman3 complete with all lists moved. * All hosts selinux enforcing. :) * No "app" servers left. All applications split out to their own (at least pair) of instances. * Logging from every app/server goes to a known place and we process them all looking for problems. I'll probibly think of some more, will send them to this thread when I do. So how about you? Any big dreams for 2014? Hopefully we can make at least some of them real. kevin

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction jlar
by Jonathan Larsen 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

- My IRC handle is jlar or j-lar. - I have experience with system administration, mostly with Debian variants and CentOS, and config management with puppet and cfengine. I've been working in healthcare for the last 3 years and I want to get my linux skills back up to par, and keep my hands dirty. I'm willing to help with anything I can and I'm hoping to learn whatever is thrown my way. I can give 4 hours a week. - I'd like to work on monitoring and config management, but really anything that I can contribute to I'm willing to do. I'm looking forward to being a part of this community! -- A cloud of mystical dust appears, shrouding Jon in its magic. You roll a four. The cloud dissipates and Jon is gone.

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Working on fedora-infrastructure ticket #130
by Jacob Clark 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hi all, I'd like to raise awareness that I am working on the following ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/130 After discussion on the fedora-apps IRC I have been recommended to create a prototype and send it over to both design-team and infrastructure. I will be creating the menu bar in vanilla CSS and HTML without any framework to start with, as it was made clear during the IRC discussion that there are some politics on which is favourable. Of-course as this is also Fedora wise, creating a unanimous addition is important. I will follow this email up shortly with the prototype, however could I receive any information, suggestions and or ideas on this ticket. Many thanks Jacob Clark.

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jacob Clark
by Jacob Clark 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hello, My name is Jacob Clark and I'm excited to get involved contributing to the Infrastructure of Fedora! I'm from the United Kingdom (GMT+ London time). I currently work for a large retail company managing their web projects and infrastructure. I have a solid understanding of emerging software development techniques, client side frameworks, server side frameworks, relational/non-relational database systems, continuous integration, testing, version control & sysadmin unix/linux. I'm competent in several programming languages, at both high level and low level machine development, these languages include: Assembly (NASM), C (GCC), Objective-C, Python, PHP, Pascal, JavaScript and Ruby. I'm experienced with Unix(-like) systems, DevOps platforms (Puppet, Chef), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Hudson), Firewalls (IPTables), HTTP Servers (Nginx, Apache, Varnish) and various other platform reliability tools. I'm joining because I believe contributing to an open source project such as Fedora is not only rewarding, but also a fantastic way to gain experience in working with a large scale collaborative project. I'm able to put in a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 hours per week on Fedora. My IRC handle is: imjacobclark I'd be very interested in getting started straight away tackling bugs, and I would like to pick up the following to get started with: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/130 I'm looking forward to getting started and heavily involved in the Fedora project. Many thanks Jacob Clark.

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Introduction
by Joerg Stephan 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Good morning to the list, My name is Jörg Stephan, i am an 34 years old system administrator from germany. I basically work on maintaining some hundreds of debian/ubuntu based servers and a handful of centos machines. I would like to participate/contribute to the infrastructure team. Besides my administrator work i am also responsible for IT security questions. I have some advanced knowledge in topics like basic administration (webservers, databases, fileserver, etc) monitoring with nagios and zabbix and configuration via puppet. Please find some (maybe out dated) infos at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Johe -- Joerg Stephan

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Hello World! (intro)
by Elizabeta S⌀resen 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

Hello infra! My name is Elizabeta and I'd like to contribute! I'm now a student at RMIT in Melbourne, however for the past 5 years I've been a sysadmin working in managed hosting and vfx. I'm a python developer, config management (puppet, ansible) and fairly confident dba. I'd like to learn more about fedora (Primarily supported debian) and eventually get into kernel dev. I look forward to helping out in anyway I can, I can provide about 12 hours a week until March then I'd drop down to 6 as uni starts. Thanks, Elizabeta

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introducing myself
by Seenu Reddy 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

hi Fedora, i am newbie to Linux i have two years experience in c c++ and driver development in windows OS. I have worked on PCI ,USB drivers ,and developed Single Document, Multiple Document Interface applications for simulating data logger cards . I have started working on Linux and currently developing an application using qt designer. I am very interested in Operating System designing and development about which i know just a little. I want to learn this through Linux . I can spend minimum 1 hour per day and more than 3 hours on weekends. i am interested in Fedora because Fedora has vast community to help starters and i just like it to learn through contributing . so what are the groups i should join ? Please suggest me some groups where i can use my existing skills ,so that i can get familiar with things happening here. so please consider my request and reply me any suggestions . Thank you, -- cnu <seenureddy42(a)gmail.com>

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ansible variable fix commit
by Kevin Fenzi 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Thanks to janeznemanic, I have a commit ready for the ansible repo that should replace all the old $foo and ${foo} variables with new style ansible/jinja2 {{ foo }} style. ;) Anyone around to +1 it? :) It's rather large, so it's in /tmp/ansible-variables.patch on lockbox01. kevin

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state of the infra ansible, cron job and roadmap
by Kevin Fenzi 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Greetings. So, over the holiday break I did some massive cleanup on our ansible repo. I took an initial patch from janeznemanic to fix old syntax and went from there. I got all the depreciated syntax fixed (there might be some small amount of stray ones). I also moved accelerate into global.yml, so it should apply to all playbooks. The needed package and firewall port should be set in the kickstarts now. Next I took a simple script to run --check --diff on each host and group playbook and got it up and running. It takes about an hour to run against our host/group playbooks when it's run one at a time. We could just fire them all off but that might swamp lockbox01. Ideally, what I would like to see from a run of this script is all hosts/groups reachable and 0 items changed. This is the state we should strive for. ;) * The following hosts are unreachable: 209.132.184.158 (see jenkins note below) 209.132.184.209 (see jenkins note below) arm03-packager01.arm.fedoraproject.org (will fix) arm03-packager02.arm.fedoraproject.org (will fix) arm03-qa01.arm.fedoraproject.org (will fix) buildvm-27.phx2.fedoraproject.org (test buildvm, expected down) jenkins-cloud jenkins-slaves (these look to need a bit of tweaking) lists-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org (is up, but / is 100% full) mailman01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org releng01.phx2.fedoraproject.org (is down since we don't have a branched right now) * The following hosts have changed > 0: 209.132.184.144 209.132.184.153 209.132.184.157 arm03-qa00.arm.fedoraproject.org arm03-qa02.arm.fedoraproject.org arm03-qa03.arm.fedoraproject.org arm03-releng00.arm.fedoraproject.org arm03-releng01.arm.fedoraproject.org arm03-releng02.arm.fedoraproject.org arm03-releng03.arm.fedoraproject.org backup03.phx2.fedoraproject.org beaker01.qa.fedoraproject.org bkernel01.phx2.fedoraproject.org bkernel02.phx2.fedoraproject.org buildvm-01.phx2.fedoraproject.org buildvmhost-10.phx2.fedoraproject.org buildvmhost-11.phx2.fedoraproject.org buildvmhost-12.phx2.fedoraproject.org bvirthost07.phx2.fedoraproject.org copr-be-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org copr-fe-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org db02.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org docs-backend01.phx2.fedoraproject.org fedocal01.phx2.fedoraproject.org fedocal01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org fedocal02.phx2.fedoraproject.org gallery01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org kernel01.qa.fedoraproject.org kernel02.qa.fedoraproject.org keys01.fedoraproject.org mailman01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org notifs-backend01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org notifs-web01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org notifs-web02.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org nuancier01.phx2.fedoraproject.org nuancier01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org nuancier02.phx2.fedoraproject.org nuancier02.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org releng02.phx2.fedoraproject.org taskotron-dev01.qa.fedoraproject.org virthost15.phx2.fedoraproject.org I'll work with others to get those all fixed up in the coming weeks. That said, how do we want to run our non manual ansible jobs? a) run a --check --diff once a day and yell about unreachable or changed>0 (I could commit this now) b) just run them once a day and yell about anything that changes. (I could commit this now) c) Trigger them on git commits. This would take work to figure out what was affected by the commit, or just fire off a run of everything. d) setup some file somewhere that can be created by sysadmin group and a cron job picks it up and runs the next time it runs. This would allow someone to commit something, schedule a run and give a bit of time for someone to notice a problem with it before it does. Thoughts? As far as roadmap for migration: I'm going to try and work on splitting out everything that is still on app* servers to their own ansible instances. Once the app servers are fully migrated we can tackle proxy*, then virthosts, then various singletons. Then we can see where we are, and work a final push to get everything left moved over. ;) kevin

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FedoraHosted down?
by Frank Murphy 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Not seeing anything on: http://status.fedoraproject.org/ Trac detected an internal error: IOError: Couldn't find an available endpoint for name 'trac.hosted03' -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2014-01-09)
by Kevin Fenzi 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow, 2014-01-09 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics: #topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the meeting. Don't be shy! #topic Applications status / discussion Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji, community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc. If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note. #topic Sysadmin status / discussion Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week, or things that are upcoming. #topic Upcoming Tasks/Items https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/list/infrastructure/ #topic 2014 dreaming Some discussion about what we want to get done in 2014. :) #topic Open Floor Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a note replying to this thread. More info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings Thanks kevin

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Fedora koji upgrade -- features and schedule
by Matthew Miller 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

I'm not sure if this is more appropriate for this list or for RelEng, but I figure the RelEng folks read this too, so I'd start here. The newer release of upstream Koji has the feature where images can be generated with Anaconda rather than appliance-creator (through Oz via ImageFactory). Since appliance-creator is not really maintained upstream (excepting Dennis's hacking to keep it working), this is pretty important. And since it will require the cloud kickstart (and anything else that wants to use it) to be updated, the longer we have to get the kinks out, the better. On top of this, upstream ImageFactory is gaining support for generating Docker images, and we're getting a lot of push for making these official, or at least more official than they are now, and generated-in-koji would be a great start. That code should be in the upstreams (and the Fedora packages) soon, but isn't yet. Since I assume we don't want to do the upgrade more times than necessary, this is adds a wrinkle to the timing. Are there existing plans for upgrading koji? What all is needed to make this happen? Thanks! -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>

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torrent site ipv6 support question
by Christopher Meng 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi, Does torrent.fedoraprojecy.org support ipv6? One of my friends said that he couldn't connect to tracker: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969/announce As it's in "offline" status. Thanks.

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January status update for Fedora Infrastructure Apprentices
by Kevin Fenzi 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Greetings. You are getting this email because you are in the 'fi-apprentice' group in the fedora account system (or are reading this on the infrastructure list). When you reply, please include your fedora account system login. Additionally, this month, I am CC'ing the infrastructure list. If you would like to send your feedback there as well everyone can see and comment on it. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Apprentice At the first of every month(or so), I am going to be sending out an email like this one. I would like feedback on how things are going for you. I'd like to ask for everyone to send me a quick reply with the following data or anything related you can think of that might help us make the apprentice program more useful. 0. Whats your fedora account system login? 1. Have you logged in and used your fi-apprentice membership to look at our machines/setup in the last month? Do you plan to? 2. Has it helped you decide any area you wish to focus on or contribute to more? 3. Have you looked at or been able to work on any of the fi-apprentice 'easyfix' tickets? https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/14 4. Do you still wish to be a member of the group? If not (for whatever reason) could you provide any hints to help others down the road? 5. Is there any help or communication or ideas you have that would help you do any of the above? 6. What do you find to be the hardest part of getting involved? Finding things to work on? Getting attention from others to help you? Finding tickets in your interest area? 7. Have you been able to make any weekly irc meetings? Do you find them helpful or interesting? 8. What are you most looking forward to in the world of computing for 2014? Any other general feedback is also quite welcome, including improvements to this email, the wiki page, etc. Any folks I do not hear from in the next week will be removed from the group. (Note that it's easy to be readded when you have time or whatever and it's nothing at all personal, we just want to keep the group up to date with active folks). Thanks, and looking forward to your feedback! kevin

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Graham Williamson
by Graham Williamson 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hello, My name is Graham Williamson and my IRC nick is willo. I'm currently working as a cyber security consultant, in order to support my geek addiction. Accordingly, I've got pretty broad coverage of a lot of areas. I'd say that, I'm very strong on networking, not just on the OS, but also on physical (and virtual) network infrastructure. I've got significant experience on Cisco technologies (LAN through to carrier technologies) and some experience on Avaya/Nortel equipment. For the last 3 years, system administration has been a big part of my job description, all of which has been on RHEL and CentOS servers. This has covered a range of services from VoIP, billing and infrastructure/security monitoring systems through to Satellite, IPA and KVM/LXC/Xen virtualization platforms. I've had a look at the various FIG's and I think I'd be a fit for either sysadmin-build, sysadmin-hosted or sysadmin-tools. I'm open to other suggestions, if you think I might be a good fit somewhere else or if these teams have sufficient members, and other areas are lacking. I'm always keen to learn new and different things. sysadmin-noc would definitely be a possibility, except that I can't have a pager at work, and I've got 3 kids, so I've don't have any goods left to sell (they're all either broken, dribbled on or covered in food and buried in the sandpit). :) I've got experience to varying degrees in the majority of the "required skills" areas. As for outstanding issues, this one seems right up my alley, https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/833, also this one (if it's still valid) https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/466 My introduction to Linux was Fedora Core 2 and I was seduced by Ubuntu for a while, but now I'm back on Fedora and I'm very seen to contribute. Cheers, Willo

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Git-python patch for working with GPG signed commits
by Ankur Sinha 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

Hi, A few months ago, we noticed that the current git-python version did not work with GPG signed commits[1]. Upstream's[2] been dead for almost 8 months now. There is however a pull request that adds support for GPG signed commits[3]. Since upstream is dead, and the pull request will not be accepted until someone steps up to revive the project, should I file a bug and request the Fedora maintainer to carry the patch? Would that be preferred over infra carrying a hotfix? I think it'll be good to request package maintainers to GPG sign their commits[4]. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/git-python/Ralph $20Bean/git-python/hFfA9gXkz6s/b9VrRDaypkMJ [2] https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython [3] https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pulls [4] http://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story.html -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG

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--major option in lvchange man page
by emmanuel segura 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

Hello everyone, Maybe this is the wrong place for ask, but i saw the --major lvchange option in the man page of fedora 18 and fedora 19 isn't there.

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Admin of Copr
by Miroslav Suchý 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

We had recently first legal issue on Copr and I had to remove one project. And because of Christmas it took me 2 days to notice it. Currently there are just two admins of Copr. It would be nice if there can be more admins. Admin can then access: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/admin/ And delete projects where legal flag has been raised. If somebody from infra want to become admin, please reply to this email. Or if you have access to Copr machine (cloud-admin should have) you can run: first log in copr.fedoraproject.org webUI, then cd /usr/share/copr/coprs_frontend/ ./manage.py alter_user --admin your_fas_login Mirek

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