CPE Weekly Update – Week 18 2022
by Lenka Segura
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/).
Week: 2nd - 6th May 2022
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-18-2022/
<https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=10998>
# 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.
Link to planning board: (https://zlopez.fedorapeople.org/I&R-2022-05-04.pdf)
Update
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### Fedora Infra
* Resultsdb now entirely working in stg ocp4 (Many thanks Leo!)
* leaned up pagure.io ssl cert issues
* Fixed an issue on ipsilon02 that was preventing bugzilla.redhat.com logins
* Business as usual tickets (lists, groups, etc)
### CentOS Infra including CentOS CI
* Duffy tests for CI infra (no prod deployment scheduled yet)(
https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/712)
* Pagure on rhel8 upgrade tests (https://git.dev.centos.org is now up with
* pagure 5.13 on rhel8)(https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/456)
* BAU (new koji/cbs tags, mirrors proposal)
### Release Engineering
* F36 RC-1.4 is out
* 1 proposed blocker, GO/NOGO is tomorrow
## 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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* May planning meeting happening now - outlining goals to work towards for
the month
* Active discussion happening on RHEL and CentOS Stream module
synchronization. Planning the branch names, stream names and DistroBaker
rules.
## 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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* More deployment testing
* Reverse lookup IPs to get hostnames when provisioning
* Legacy API: map parameter combinations to pools in configuration rather
than hard-coded
* Node quotas (ongoing)
## Package Automation (Packit Service)
Goal of this initiative
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Automate RPM packaging of infra apps/packages
Updates
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* Business as usual, working through errors with packit configs
* Ready to try our first full release this week (hopefully) resulting in
koji builds and bodhi updates
## Flask-oidc: oauth2client replacement
Goal of this initiative
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Flask-oidc is a library used across the Fedora infrastructure and is the
client for ipsilon for its authentication. flask-oidc uses oauth2client.
This library is now deprecated and no longer maintained. This will need to
be replaced with authlib.
Updates:
--------
* Investigating where oauth2client appears in the code, possible
replacement functions in authlib (
https://github.com/fedora-infra/flask-oidc/issues/5)
* Met with Aurelien this afternoon to gain some of his knowledge
## 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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* epel9 up to 2455 source packages (increase of 39 from last week).
* Qt5 rebuild issue from last week has been resolved in epel9-next, but
epel8-next rebuilds are blocked by a CentOS Stream 8 module bug.
* Partially unblocked azure-cli addition to epel9 by adding python-jwt.
* Bootstrapped the “testing-cabal” suite in epel9 (python-extras,
python-fixtures, python-testresources, python-testscenarios, and
python-testtools) (update:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-c4b352d61a). This
potentially unblocks many new epel9 packages, notably several Openstack
client tools and libraries.
* ImageMagick incompatible upgrade and related rebuilt packages are
available in epel8-testing. (Fixes 81 bugs, 69 of them CVE bugs)(
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-62b1a9e158)
Kindest regards,
CPE Team
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