Fedora 39 beta freeze now in effect
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
We are now in the infrastructure freeze leading up to the Fedora 39
Beta release. This is a pre release freeze.
We do this to ensure that our infrastructure is stable and ready to
release the Fedora 39 Beta when it's available.
You can see a list of hosts that do not freeze by checking out the
ansible repo and running the freezelist script:
git clone
https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible.git
ansible/scripts/freezelist -i inventory
Any hosts listed as freezes is frozen until 2023-09-12 (or later if
release slips). Frozen hosts should have no changes made to them without
a sign-off on the change from at least 2 sysadmin-main or rel-eng
members, along with (in most cases) a patch of the exact change to be
made to this list or a pull request for review.
Thanks,
Kevin
7 months, 1 week
AWS gp2 -> gp3
by Miroslav Suchý
tl;dr I want to change **all** storage types in AWS from gp2 to gp3 next week.
The recent Change proposal
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CloudEC2gp3
brought to my attention that gp3 is actually faster and cheaper than gp2. The comparision is as follows:
gp2:
* $0.10 per GB-month
* IOPS: 100 IOPB, burstable to 3000 IOPS
* Throughput: Throughput limit is between 128 MiB/s and 250 MiB/s, depending on the volume size.
gp3:
* IOPS: 3000 for free, addional IOPS can be bought
* Throughput 125 MiB/s for free, addional throughput can be bought
For more information see
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/migrate-your-amazon-ebs-volumes-from...
We have about 150 volumes of gp2 type in AWS. Copr is the most prominent user, but there are other: libravatar, taiga,
TF, and other...
The type of the storage can be changed on the fly - even for attached and volumes in-use. I already tried that with my
private server. Unless somebody will have objections I plan to change volume types to gp3 for Copr next week and for all
other services in week following Easter.
I also modified fedimg template to allow gp3
https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible/c/034cf953db5d0519eb327136abd72a2e...
If you have scripts outside of fedora-infra/ansible to provision instances that uses gp2 for volumes, it will be great
if you can move it to gp3.
Miroslav
7 months, 2 weeks
congrats to another new sysadmin-mainer
by Kevin Fenzi
I'm happy to announce that We have approved a new member in our
sysadmin-main group:
adamwill - Adam Williamson
This is the core group of trusted folks that high level access to most
everything in fedora infrastructure.
Adam has been around for a long time and has setup and run Fedora's
OpenQA instance. In addition he's done tons of work on bodhi, packages,
and too many other places to mention as well as testing everying and
making sure releases and rawhide are working.
He has proved his dedication, trustworthiness, and ability.
Congrats!
Use your powers for good! :)
kevin
7 months, 4 weeks
GitLab Grouping and Naming
by Ryan Lerch
I just would get a discussion started with the process of
semi-formalizing the grouping and naming guidelines for the Fedora
GitLab instance.
Currently there are a bunch of groups with subgroups in the main
/fedora/ namespace:
https://gitlab.com/fedora
Depending on how we decide to group, some of these may remain there
(or possibly be grouped together in another group) This is however
some repos and groups that i'm not sure what they are or could
probably be moved into some existing groups:
* Source Git group (https://gitlab.com/fedora/src) -- not what you
think it only has 4 repos so far
* Fedora Podcast (https://gitlab.com/fedora/podcast) could possibly go
under marketing maybe
* Packager-Tools (https://gitlab.com/fedora/packager-tools)
* people (https://gitlab.com/fedora/people) a private group with one repo in it
This might have to be something that we have a meeting to discuss and
figure out a scheme?
cheers,
ryanlerch
8 months
Planned Outage - Sever updates/reboots - 2023-08-16 21:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi
Planned Outage - Sever updates/reboots - 2023-08-16 21:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2023-08-16 21:00 UTC,
which will last approximately 4 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
or run:
date -d '2023-08-16 21:00UTC'
Reason for outage:
We will be applying all updates and rebooting servers into current kernels.
Services will be up and down in the outage window.
Package maintainers are advised to avoid submitting builds or doing other packaging work in the outage window.
Affected Services:
Many services will be up and down in the outage window as servers are updated and rebooted.
Ticket Link:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11475
Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.libera.chat
or #admin:fedoraproject.org / #noc:fedoraproject.org on matrix.
Please add comments to the ticket for this outage above.
Updated status for this outage may be available at
https://www.fedorastatus.org/
8 months, 2 weeks
Introduction: Seth Maurice-Brant
by Seth
Hi there,
I'm Seth, an A level student in the UK, currently studying Computer Science, Business Studies and Biology.
I've been using Linux for a good few years and Fedora has been the distribution I've stuck with the longest, mainly because it is really smooth and just works.
Over the past few days, I have decided to commit some time to contributing to the Fedora Project going forward. I've already joined the websites team, but the area I'm really interested in getting involved with is the infrastructure team. I have some experience with Linux sysadmin, Python and SQL and I thought that this could be an amazing opportunity for me to both refine those skills whilst also making meaningful contributions back to the community.
I'm interested in joining the fi-apprentice group and trying to get up to speed with how the infrastructure team functions.
I am keen to get started and learn. I've subscribed to the mailing list, and you can find me in the Matrix (I tend to go by either Seth MB or saluki). I'm also planning on attending the weekly meetings going forward.
I hope to get onboarded some time soon and get to know some of you,
Seth Maurice-Brant
8 months, 3 weeks
