ticket#2673 - nitrate deployment
by James Laska
Greetings,
I am in search of sponsorship for hosting space to deploy a test
instance of nitrate [1]. Some of you may recall several years back when
we deployed an instance of Testopia. That exploration was cut short
when we discovered license incompatibilities between testopia and
Fedora. At that time, a small group of Red Hat associates began
creating a new Django-based test management system to remove the
components that had conflicting licenses. That new system became
nitrate [1].
The Fedora QA team would like to experiment/explore this newer
Django-based test management system. At the very least, I believe we'll
need a publicly accessible server where we can host the nitrate instance
and a mysql database for it.
I filed ticket#2673
(https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2673) to track
this request. Please don't hesitate with any
questions/comments/concerns.
Thanks,
James
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/nitrate/
12 years, 3 months
System Naming Schema
by Adam M. Dutko
The following disscussion about how to name machines popped up in the
meeting today:
15:42 < nirik> basically the issue is this... we have a db01 machine in puppet,
we want to replace it with another new shiny instance.
15:42 < nirik> if we also call it db01, then there is a time where we have to
cut over and the old machine gets no more updates, etc.
15:43 < nirik> and there may be puppet changes to make the new db01 happy that
would have to be reverted if we went back to the old one.
I am attempting to continue it on the mailing list. Instead of using
functional names like db01, db02, web01 and etc. I've always used
mythological names like heracles, odin, thor, and etc. It makes it a
bit difficult to determine the functionality of a system but it makes
it a lot easier to perform upgrades and changes like Nirik mentioned.
If desired we could then use DNS in the form of CNAME records to
create "functional aliases" like db01 and etc. that wouldn't affect
our core utilities like puppet.
Just a thought. Feedback?
12 years, 7 months
serverbeach dns
by Seth Vidal
looks like the ips we had for the sb-provided dns servers:
66.135.45.76
66.135.45.92
are no longer working as name servers, so sb* and collab1, etc were not
able to talk to puppet b/c they couldn't resolve it.
I've pushed a new resolv.conf to those boxes using our nameservers
instead.
it appears to be working properly.
just a heads up.
-sv
12 years, 7 months
Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database outage - 2011-05-04 20:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi
Outage: Wiki, Insight, Smolt, Wordpress, Zarafa database outage - 2011-05-04 20:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2011-05-04 20:00UTC, which will last
approximately 2 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2011-05-04 20:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
The database backend for several services is being moved to new hardware
and upgraded. This will result in an outage of services using that
database server. Note that some services should move quickly and downtime
on them will be small. The wiki should be up reasonably quickly, but smolt may
be down for much of the window.
Affected Services:
Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/
Smolt - http://smolts.org/
Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
Fedora Blogs - http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/
Zarafa - http://admin.fedoraproject.org/zarafa
Unaffected Services:
BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/
GIT / Source Control
DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org
Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Email system
Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/
Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/
Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/
Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/
Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/
Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/
Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Translation Services - http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2745
Contact Information:
Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the
ticket for this outage above.
12 years, 7 months
new machines/moves over the next few weeks
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
I'd like to move guests that are currently on xen10 and xen12 in the
next few weeks before final freeze. Both these machines are going off
hardware support soon, so we should get our guests off them.
They currently have:
xen10.phx2.fedoraproject.org:log1:running
xen10.phx2.fedoraproject.org:memcached2:running
xen12.phx2.fedoraproject.org:db01:running
For xen10, this week I will look at:
- Nuking log01 in favor of log02 (which is already all setup).
- Setup a memcached03 box (rhel6) and nuke memcached2.
- Take down xen10
For xen12 things will be a bit trickier as we need to move db01:
- Setup a db05 (rhel6, etc)
- dump/restore data to get a idea how long it will take.
Currently there's a LOT of data on db01, but much of it's stuff we no
longer care about: transifex, cacti, prelude.
which we can omit.
- Schedule outage for around 2011-05-03 or so for insight, wiki, smolt,
wordpress, zarafa.
- Take down xen12.
After F15 release is done, the next machine on the hit parade is xen14:
xen14.phx2.fedoraproject.org:app01:running
xen14.phx2.fedoraproject.org:puppet01:running
We can probibly do that one without an outage needed.
If anyone would like to assist with any of this, or has a better plan
or ideas, let me know. ;)
kevin
12 years, 7 months
Introduction
by Frazer, Cody R
Hello,
My name is Cody Frazer and I'm interested
in helping with the Fedora Project. I'm most
interested in doing system administration and
the like. I live near St. Louis, Missouri (CST).
I have one year of college towards a B.S. in
Computational Physics and Computer Science
where I worked in C++, Visual Basic, PHP, MySQL
and Perl. This past year, I've worked as a full-time
web developer at Concordia Publishing House, where
I work mostly in Ruby on Rails. We have a small team
so we have to manage our servers and do our own
database, systems, and network administration.
I'm an avid Vim user and I enjoy streamlining my
configuration for maximum productivity. I really
enjoy writing scripts in bash and ruby do normal
filesystem activities (doing advanced/specific
large-scale file movement/finding/changing). I
also have a sort of file system OCD. I'm very
particular about what gets added to my system.
I love making sure that every tool and development
method I use is keeping my system in pristine
condition. I love making sure that changes are
modular, unobtrusive, and easily controllable/removable.
My favorite language for sys. admin. is ruby.
I'm willing and excited to learn anything necessary.
One of my favorite things is learning new things and
improving my toolkit.
Here's a list of skills that I possess:
C: familiar/basic
C++: basic
Perl: basic
Python: basic
Lisp: basic
Visual Basic: basic
Ruby: intermediate
Rails: intermediate
Fedora: basic-intermediate
Bash: intermediate
Apache: basic
Java: basic
Linux: basic-intermediate
MySQL: basic-intermediate
TCL: familiar
Tk: familiar-basic
PHP: basic
I want to join Fedora Project for a few reasons:
1) it's a large project and it seems like there's enough
to do that I can do a lot of what I enjoy (sys. admin.)
2) I'm very appreciative of Fedora and Open Source
software, in general. It's given me soo much, so I'd
like to use my skills to give back. I couldn't imagine
being a developer/scientist without Open Source and
Linux.
3) Fedora was my first and remains one of my favorite
Linux distributions. I use it and am invested in helping
to improve/support it.
I really would like to do anything involving system administration.
I love scripting and automating things for developers to
make development streamlined. I'm also very passionate
about having the best tools available. I'm constantly
critically analyzing every tool I use. I think I'd like to do
this on the operating system level - make sure it's running
smooth, not full of junk, and provides the best environment
for development, deployment, or whatever else it is made to do.
Currently, I'm working two jobs for 7 days a week and 60-70 hours.
I'm pretty busy, but I've got great time management skills. I like
maximizing my time so that I'm always learning or working. I
can easily reserve Saturday mornings for work and probably
a few hours for a couple evenings during the week. I can guarantee
4 hours on Saturday at the least. At most, I can guarantee that
and 2 hours Monday - Thursday, and 4 on Friday. So 4 hrs./wk. minimum
and 16 hrs./wk. maximum. I'm thinking that the average I'll be
able/expecting to spend is 10 hrs./wk.
Hope this wasn't too much information or useless babble! :)
Thanks,
Cody
12 years, 7 months
Changes to PHX2 netapp ISCSI
by Stephen John Smoogen
Previously, the PHX2 facility has had one ISCSI partition that was
mounted on multiple xen/kvm servers to allow for boxes to be moved
from one server to another when needed. This worked for in our
original PHX1 facility, but the new netapp can be configured in more
ways and the storage admins have recommended we split up our storage
into smaller "containers" to help deal with possible performance and
continuity of service issues.
Old partition: xenGuests
New partitions: virtWebGuests virtBuildGuests
currently on xenGuests the following partititons and guests live:
compose-x86-02 xenGuests -wi-a- 300.00g
cvs-storage xenGuests -wi-a- 300.00g
cvs1 xenGuests -wi-a- 75.00g
cvs2 xenGuests -wi-a- 15.00g
koji2 xenGuests -wi-a- 10.00g
nfs01 xenGuests -wi-a- 10.00g
pkgs01 xenGuests owi-a- 75.00g
relepel01 xenGuests -wi-a- 30.00g
relepel1-old xenGuests -wi-a- 30.00g
sign-bridge01 xenGuests -wi-a- 30.00g
ns04 xenGuests -wi-a- 15.00g
db02 xenGuests -wi-a- 75.00g
we would rebuild/move ns04 and db02 over to virtWebGuests
and the other boxes would be rebuilt as needed on the virtBuildGuests
share. [We can also create more shares for the build network.]
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren
12 years, 7 months