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CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2021Q3
by Davide Cavalca 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

Hello, I've published our quarterly update for the Hyperscale SIG activities on the CentOS Blog: https://blog.centos.org/2021/10/centos-hyperscale-sig-quarterly-report-for-… Cheers Davide

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ANN: Hyperscale (GNOME/KDE) Workstation snapshot 20211001 LiveDVDs
by Neal Gompa 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-June/077079.htmlHello all, As I announced back in June[1], the CentOS Hyperscale SIG started producing an experimental Hyperscale Workstation Spin to showcase the technologies we're working on to the broader community. Today, I'm pleased to announce we've refreshed the images we released at the end of July[2]. Like that release, this one includes both GNOME and KDE Workstation variants. The spins are available here: * GNOME ISO: https://d2r1r30d0ahkv5.cloudfront.net/CS8-HS-GNOME-LIVE-20211001.iso * KDE ISO: https://d2r1r30d0ahkv5.cloudfront.net/CS8-HS-KDE-LIVE-20211001.iso * SHA512 checksums: https://d2r1r30d0ahkv5.cloudfront.net/CS8-HS-LIVE-20211001-CHECKSUMS We also now have the latest version of the spins for download at the Hyperscale SIG website: https://sigs.centos.org/hyperscale/spins/workstation/ Aside from being a general package content refresh, there is a notable fix: * PackageKit now is able to resolve CentOS repositories. Since CentOS repositories use non-standard DNF vars in the repository paths, PackageKit was not able to resolve them. This bug was reported over a year ago (and fixed in PackageKit upstream!), but despite having a patch to fix it, it has not been fixed, so we now ship a patched PackageKit to resolve the problem. The Red Hat bug describes the issue and has a fix for it included: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847124 The remaining issues are expected to be the same as the previous release[2]. If you find any other issues, we would definitely love to hear about them! We have a dedicated issue tracker for Hyperscale spins where we would appreciate bugs to be reported: https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/spin-bugs We hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making this! Thanks and best regards, Neal (on behalf of the CentOS Hyperscale SIG) [1]: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-June/077079.html [2]: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-July/077170.html -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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CPE Weekly Update - Week of Sept 27th
by Vipul Siddharth 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

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/) There was a hiatus for some time, expect this weekly from now on! If you wish to read this in rendered markdown, check the post on discussion.fedoraproject.org: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cpe-weekly-update-week-of-sept-27th-… # Highlights of the week ## Infrastructure & Release Engineering Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- 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 ------ ### Hardware Updates * Warranty renewal season for both Fedora and CentOS Infra, which means we are looking at the hardware that needs attention. ### Fedora Infra * Infra and Releng team is working with other initiatives team members to handover maintenance tasks * Started moving forward again on updating our dnssec keys * Issues with openqa-x86-worker04 machine ongoing * Planning a mass update/reboot cycle next week tentatively * 66 issues open (many to close as the freeze lifted) ### CentOS Infra * https://sigs.centos.org announced on the centos-devel list * Updated ci.centos.org Jenkins to comply with security compliance * Collaboration with Stream team for infra tasks (including for beaker/ftp) * Business as usual * New tags in cbs/koji (automotive, cloud) * New projects on git.centos.org ### Release Engineering * Fedora 35 Beta out the door! Freeze ended ## CentOS Stream Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- 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 ------- * Working on Content Resolver buildroot logic integration * Metalinks for CentOS Stream 9 mirrors works now * An updated centos-release package exercising the new mirror infra is built, we expect it to be composed in the next couple of days * Starting some investigations to help maintainers work with GitLab * Reworking some of the protocols that we announce internally for our composes (Beaker needs to pull the composes via FTP or tftp) ## Datanommer/Datagrepper Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- These apps are currently used to retrieve historical information about messages on the fedmsg bus and add them to a Postgres database. Datanommer reads-in messages from the bus and stores them in the database and Datagrepper exposes the messages in the database via an API with different filtering capacities. We want to upgrade these applications to use fedora-messaging and increase the performance of the applications for users. Updates ------- * Import script is still running, the ETA of ~2 months seems to be confirmed * We’re doing the finishing touches to code ## Metrics for Apps on OpenShift Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- The project team will deliver on the installation of newest OpenShift in Fedora infra to be then configured with prometheus so applications can be hooked into this service and can be monitored and metricized through this tech stack for more comprehensive understanding of app behaviour, performance and troubleshooting. Updates ------- * A lot of work in docs - SOP docs merged https://pagure.io/infra-docs-fpo/pull-request/8 * We’ve enabled the user-workload-monitoring stack on the staging cluster, and began documenting it * We’ve disabled the default permissions that users get when they login on the staging cluster and started documenting that too * A few things are not quite right like network interfaces, but we have the basic production cluster up and running * Working to get the web console working, but in the meantime can use the CLI on the os-control01 node: https://console-openshift-console.apps.ocp.fedoraproject.org/ ## DNF Counting Goal of this Initiative ----------------------- The DNF Counting project will enhance the currently existing program that captures a ‘countme’ value from computers running Fedora weekly. There are multiple scripts running from a server which parses the data into a csv file for graphing and displaying trends that had been misbehaving a lot. This program gives a good indication for how many computers use Fedora so the project team will work on improving these scripts and the program overall to make it a more reliable and maintainable solution. Updates ------- * Finishing off last tests * More deployment cleanup * Investigate why our cronjobs are so noisy (ongoing) * Ongoing work on documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/infra/sysadmin_guide/dnf-counting/ Kindest regards & on behalf of the CPE team, -- Vipul Siddharth He/His/Him Fedora | CentOS CI Infrastructure Team

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[REPORT] Automotive SIG
by Jeffrey Osier-Mixon 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

October 2021 Quarterly report submitted by: Jefro Osier-Mixon, Red Hat - acting chair _____________________________________ Membership update (members added, removed. Chair changes.) This SIG is new, and as such does not have a formal membership process yet. The mailing list currently has xx subscribers representing at least yy companies. I have been asked to act as chair for the first few months in order to stabilize the SIG. _____________________________________ Releases in the most recent quarter (or most recent release, if none in that quarter) The SIG is not yet creating builds or publishing releases, but we hope to do so in the next quarter. _____________________________________ Health report and general activity narrative. The SIG has had two public meetings since approval, each with roughly 40 attendees representing at least 8 separate organizations. We feel this is a good start at corporate community diversity but will continue to work toward a community-driven project that is not dominated by Red Hat - this is intended to be a community effort with contributions and shared benefits from all participants. One notable participant is the Automotive Grade Linux project (AGL). Also noted are several OEM automakers and a few tier-1 suppliers, so interest is clearly piqued. Several RH employees are working on the first contribution to the project as well as the infrastructure required to build and test it. There is confidence we will be building software in Q4 and hope to have an initial release of an Automotive CentOS variant in Q1 2022. _____________________________________ Issues for the board to address, if any None, keep up the excellent work :) Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon | jefro(a)redhat.com Red Hat Office of the CTO | Sr. Principal Community Architect, Automotive

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