4:15 p.m.
Hi everyone,
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering)
Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this
report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat
(https://libera.chat/).
If you wish to read this in form of a blog post, check the post on
Fedora community blog:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update---week-of-novem...
(available soon)
# Highlights of the week
## Infrastructure & Release Engineering
Goal of this Initiative
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Purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding
CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS
infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release
(mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.). The ARC (which is a
subset of the team) investigates possible initiatives that CPE might
take on.
Update
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### Fedora Infra
* Tracked down a annoying s390x qemu bug in f35 qemu
* Gitlab saml2 auth hooked up (https://gitlab.com/groups/fedora)
* Got bugzilla2fedmsg cert renewed.
* Lots of misc small tickets
### CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
* cbs/koji:
* Fixed issue for builds with large file descriptors needs
(https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/527)
* Tested an “image-build” and we’ll document how SIGs will be able to
build appliances/images through cbs (
https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/535)
* New TAGs (BAU)
* Sponsored infra: added zabbix macros through ansible to trigger alert on
higher
BW consumption
(
https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-zabbix-agent/commit/be532e32758b2d...
)
* WIP (RFE) : building DuD .iso images through cbs pipeline (
https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/418)
* WIP/proposal : discussed a rewrite of SIG Guide and move from wiki to
sigs.centos.org
### Release Engineering
* Fedora 33 is EOL as of 30.11
## CentOS Stream
Goal of this Initiative
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This initiative is working on CentOS Stream/Emerging RHEL to make this
new distribution a reality. The goal of this initiative is to prepare
the ecosystem for the new CentOS Stream.
Updates
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* ELN compose tracker is deployed
## OSCI - Distrobaker monitoring
Goal of this Initiative
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This initiative is to improve the Distrobaker monitoring to monitor
side-tags and module builds.
Distrobaker is a service which rebuilds the CentOS 9 Stream Koji builds for
RHEL 9 in Brew.
Updates
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* Just getting familiar with the codebase, starting to make minor changes
and check outputs.
## CentOS Duffy CI
Goal of this Initiative
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Duffy is a system within CentOS CI Infra which allows tenants to provision
and
access bare metal resources of multiple architectures for the purposes of
CI testing.
We need to add the ability to checkout VMs in CentOS CI in Duffy. We have
OpenNebula hypervisor available, and have started developing playbooks which
can be used to create VMs using the OpenNebula API, but due to the current
state
of how Duffy is deployed, we are blocked with new dev work to add the
VM checkout functionality.
Updates
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* API exposes database models (the gift that keeps on giving, almost done,
any year now!)
* Interfacing with OpenNebula to hand out virtual machines
## EPEL
Goal of this initiative
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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest
Group that creates,
maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for
Enterprise Linux, including,
but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific
Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL).
EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never
conflict with or replace
packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the
same infrastructure as Fedora,
including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager
and more.
Updates
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* EPEL Steering Committee voted to use plan C for the EPEL 9 rollout.
This means we will finish up EPEL 9 and announce EPEL 9 and EPEL 9 Next
simultaneously.
(https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/epel/epel.2021-11-24-21.00.html,
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproj...
)
Kindest regards,
CPE Team