Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Kevin Sandy
by Kevin Sandy
Hi all!
I’m very interested in getting involved in the Infrastructure group. I’ve been holding off on this for over a year, waiting to have “more time”, but figured I may as well jump in and start small, maybe 3-5 hours per week?
My IRC nick is ks3. I’ve been using Linux since around 1997, and professionally since 1998. Most of that has been RPM based distributions, starting with SuSE but fairly quickly moving to Red Hat, then RHEL and CentOS, and even Oracle Linux. At home, I’m using Fedora on my servers, including a cluster of Intel NUCs that host KVM machines on GlusterFS. At $work, I head up a team of Linux admins responsible for around 800 servers, including some smallish HPC environments. I *had* the RHCE certification until it expired earlier this year. I’m scheduled to take the RHEL8 exams in April 2020.
I have a good amount of scripting experience; lately it’s mostly been bash, with Python where SOAP calls or other harder-to-do in bash things were needed. I’m also fairly fluent with Perl. I’m also familiar with Puppet (and using Vagrant to test Puppet code, and Git to manage the Puppet modules), and to a smaller degree Ansible.
In addition to getting involved and giving back to the project (I also work at a non-profit, so that’s a bit of a theme...) I’m excited about learning how a different environment works and the tech that goes along with it. My main interests at the moment are probably Python and automation. I see that the Getting Started page mentions a special interest in people with web application skills; that’s definitely not my strong suit, but it is also an interest.
I’ve looked through a few of the “Easyfix” issues, and a few do look interesting. But at a few hours per week they all look like they’d take a month or more to complete, so I don’t really have a good idea of whether those are a good starting point or not. I’m definitely open to suggestions on this.
-- kevin
4 years, 4 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Ekta Arora
by Ekta arora
Sir/Mam,
I am a undergrad pursuing my B.Tech degree in Computer Science. I have
worked with python and have explored its framework Django , Flask. I would
like to contribute to Fedora.Following are my skills and experiences.
Programming languages : Python,C
Frameworks and techs: Django,Flask, NodeJs , Mysql , MongoDb
Irc handle : ekta__3501
I found following issues really interesting and would love to begin with
them.
#186 Run worldcloudbot on @fedoracommunity Twitter account
#166 Generate a general email introduction template for the onboarding
process
Thank You
Ekta Arora
ektaarora3501(a)gmail.com
4 years, 4 months
CPE Weekly: 2019-11-08
by Aoife Moloney
Hi everyone,
Welcome to the CPE team weekly project update mail!
Background:
The Community Platform Engineering group is the Red Hat team combining
IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS. Our goal is to keep
core servers and services running and maintained, build releases, and
other strategic tasks that need more dedicated time than volunteers
can give.
For better communication, we will be giving weekly reports to the
CentOS and Fedora communities about the general tasks and work being
done.
For increased communication between our communities, we have created
#redhat-cpe on Freenode! Please feel free to catch us there, a mail
has landed on both the CentOS and Fedora devel lists with context
here.
Note:
This document is currently built from individual reports rolled into a
google document which we edit and copy into a final document. We are
aware that this causes problems with some email readers, and are
working on a method to make this less problematic.
High Level Project Updates:
Fedora:
Rawhide Gating:
We are working towards deployment of Bodhi 5.0 to production
Testing & Staging are both going fine
Synching with centos.ci.org
New ci-resultsdb-listener due in production this week
More work is going into docs for rawhide gating
repoSpanner
Discovered a new bottleneck that appears due to network latency that
wasn’t present in local testing.
We are also further analysing core dumps for unexplained hanging of the app
Tested pushing the Ansible repo to a local repospanner cluster to see
how it performed with new 83x patch. It pushed in 4 minutes. Network
bottleneck is prenventing real numbers.
We are also working on improving testing.
Additional developer docblocks landed
Application Retirements
Elections
Blocking issue was fixed (https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8253)
Fedocal
jlanda hitting permission error in communishift
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8274
Nuancier
Benson Muite is now working on OIDC authentication
We are emailing him to check the progress and if he needs any help
Fpaste
Updated fpaste CLI appears to have landed in EPEL.
Writing a commblog about it
Sunset date: 1 December 2019
Badges
GDPR query under investigation
CentOS:
RHEL 8.1 announced Tuesday, team are busy tackling this
Workaround to help automatically restart repospanner
7.8 beta push has 3 packages left
Misc
Some of the team attended the OpenAlt conference in Brno. Watch out
for blogs about our experience!
The team are exploring smaller end of year initiatives, and we would
welcome any thoughts or feedback.
Comments? Suggestions? Feedback? Let Us Know!
Kind regards & have a great weekend!
Aoife
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Aoife Moloney
Feature Driver
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford
4 years, 4 months
Upgrading ODCS prod (hopefully) next week.
by Jan Kaluža
Hi,
last few weeks, I was working on ODCS upgrade in staging. This is done now and I would like to do the same upgrade in prod.
The ODCS running in Fedora prod infra is quite old and lot of things changed in the upstream. Therefore this upgrade is somehow big and I presume the service will not be running for few hours. The key changes in ODCS infrastructure will be:
- ODCS prod VMs will be redeployed to upgrade to Fedora 30.
- ODCS will stop using fedmsg-hub and starts using fedora-messaging.
- ODCS will start using Celery over fedora-infrastructure's RabbitMQ for job planning.
- Upgrade to latest ODCS and Pungi will be done.
All of that is already done and tested on staging infrastructure.
The service is currently used mainly by OSBS to build flatpak images and therefore I presume the flatpak builds will fail during this upgrade.
I will coordinate the upgrade with Clement Verna (OSBS), Owen Taylor (flatpak) and Mikolaj Izdebski (fedora infra). In case you think you should be included in discussions related to this upgrade, please respond here :).
Regards,
Jan Kaluza
4 years, 4 months