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/).
We (CPE team) will be joining Fedora Social Hour on Jan 27th. Looking forward to seeing a lot of you! ( https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/join-us-for-fedora-social-hour-every-... )
If you wish to read this in the form of a blog post, check the post on Fedora community blog: (https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?p=10633)
# 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 ------
### Fedora Infra * Mostly quiet holidays with only minor reboots, etc * More koji upgrades: all aarch64/armv7 done, s390x kvm and hubs left to do * Container builds broken, needs more eyes: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10437 * Centos cert fetching broken, needs more eyes
### CentOS Infra including CentOS CI * CentOS Linux 8 EOL plan * Hardware issues (storage box, 64 compute nodes for CI infra) * Kmods SIG DuD discussion (koji plugin vs external script) * CI storage for ocp/openshift migration planning
### Release Engineering * Rawhide compose issues, but we got a good compose yesterday after a bunch of work * Mass rebuild of F36 next week
## 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 ------- * Finished our January planning, working on: * Preparing new version of Content Resolver for production, finishing up stuff around the buildroot integration * Exploring things around increasing compose quality * Business as usual
## Datanommer/Datagrepper V.2 Goal of this initiative ----------------------- The datanommer and datagrepper stacks are currently relying on fedmsg which we want to deprecate. These two applications need to be ported off fedmsg to fedora-messaging. As these applications are 'old-timers' in the Fedora infrastructure, we would also like to look at optimizing the database or potentially redesigning it to better suit the current infrastructure needs. For phase two, we would like to focus on a DB overhaul.
Updates ------- * Data is migrated, we need to deploy the new code to production now.
## CentOS Duffy CI Goal of this initiative ----------------------- 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 ------- * Work on backend -> modules to provision vms * Legacy API integration
## Image builder for Fedora IoT Goal of this initiative ----------------------- Integration of Image builder as a service with Fedora infra to allow Fedora IoT migrate their pipeline to Fedora infra.
Updates ------- * Team forming this week. Currently waiting on work from the Image Builder team to wrap to unblock us from moving forward
## Bodhi Goal of this initiative ----------------------- This initiative is to separate Bodhi into multiple sub packages, fix integration and unit tests in CI, fix dependency management, and automate part of the release process. Read ARC team findings in detail at: https://fedora-arc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bodhi/index.html
Updates ------- * Team is forming this week and will officially be launching work next Monday
## EPEL Goal of this initiative ----------------------- 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 ------- * epel9 is growing rapidly: * 2589 packages available (355 more in testing) * 1158 source rpms (225 more in testing) * Positive community response * Ongoing documentation improvements
Kindest regards, CPE Team