Hi everyone,
here are the minutes from the infra call on May 27:
Participants
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* Einsle, Robert
* Werner, Alexander
* Effenberger, Florian
* Norbert Thiebaud
* Roczek, Dennis (until 19:45 CEST)
* Lohmaier, Christian
Agenda
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* Decision: HA filesystem
* Robert: For performant ceph as alternative to gluster you need at least 6 servers
* Decision 1: Is a HA Filesystem needed?
* 5 yes, 1 abstention
* not needed for all services, only for the production ones
* Decision 2: Should we go for gluster?
* 5 yes, 1 abstention
* Status: SQL replication:
no new developements by Norbert, Robert will confer with Norbert about Master-Slave replication, slave will be on swiss backup machine
* Status: Monitoring: Robert will setup Icinga2 on his own Machine first and then replicate the setup to the new monitoring VM
* Status: IPMI/Networking (bonding, performance issues) rdm#1197:
Inspect packages from machine-machine and machine-internet
Get stats from kernel
Test if problem persists after upgrade to Debian 8 on dauntless *first*
* Decision: Dauntless upgrade to Debian 8
* no votes against
* Discussion: Upgrade Wiki version to 1.24:
* currently running 1.23 LTS, 1.25 was just released, not stable enough)
* Decision: Upgrade to 1.24.
* no votes against
* Discussion: Debian 8
* Decision: Debian 8 as new base system
* no votes against
* Upgrade from Debian 7:
time planning: First upgrade then HA, First host to receive upgrade is dauntless
* Status: Migration of other servers:
First upgrade to Debian 8
* Discussion: Redmine upgrade and enhancements:
alongside pumbaa reinstall
* Discussion: pumbaa reinstall on new hardware with Debian 8:
* no votes against
* Decision: External backups:
* Discussion: Server housing & developer hardware
* Decision: Maintenance windows:
Tuesday 0300-0500UTC, rdm#1275
* Discussion: Service policy
List of services, hosts and VMs
Salt inclusion, infra team access
Build machines and repositories
* Housekeeping: Bugzilla tickets into Redmine, dealing with incoming Redmine tickets, deprecating internal wiki:
file again in redmine note with bot account, discussion postponed
* Decision: In-person admin meeting:
mail with details soon
The next call will take place on Wednesday, June 24, 1700 UTC (1900 CEST).
Alex