January 2020 - Arch-devops - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-devops] cloud-images
by Christian Rebischke 03 May '20

03 May '20

Dear devops team, Recently I have pushed cloud-init back to [community][1], one Arch Linux user did some improvements on the cloud-init codebase as well and they are going to officially support arch linux with version 19.3[2]. Therefore I have added support for cloud-images to the arch-boxes project[3]. These images are qcow2 images and are expected to be installed in cloud-environments like Openstack. The only thing what is missing is a way to distribute the images and release them. My current plan has been that I build and sign them locally and then upload them to a web directory (This is the most secure way as possible right now). For this I need answers for a few questions: 1. Can I have a web-directory, where only I have access to? 2. Which key should I use to sign them? A new cloud-image signing key or my personal key? (I think latter should be enough). 3. I expect to build them monthly like the ISOs, how many images do you want to keep? My current assumption is that 1 year of image backup of cloud-images (qcow2) only would cost us around 30-50GB. 4. Do we want to mirror the images? Best greetings Chris [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/cloud-init/ [2] https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=5d5a32e039782ce3e1c0843082f… [3] https://github.com/archlinux/arch-boxes/commit/9d9f04f9618367e2af8d92bef2d5…

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[arch-devops] Devops meeting summary - 16-01-2020
by Jelle van der Waa 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Hi, The meeting notes can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:DevopsMeetings/2020-01-16 Greetings, Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-devops] Meeting tommorow 20:30 UTC
by Jelle van der Waa 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Hi all, Tommorow we have another DevOps meeting at 20:30 UTC or in your own timezone visit: https://time.is/compare/2130_16_Jan_2020_in_UTC The topics for the meeting are: * How to give anatolik a bugs.archlinux.org database dump without leaking personal information? * Backups of homedir * Planet.archlinux.org * AUR ansible-ification If you want to propose an additional topic, please reply to this email. Greetings, Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-devops] Reminder about allowed activities on homedir.archlinux.org
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hey everyone, I'd like to remind everyone that homedir.archlinux.org is to be used as a host for files topically surrounding the Arch Linux project. It's not a personal file host. You can run small controlled scripts on it in case you want to generate public HTMLs or whatever but please keep it somewhat related to Arch. If in doubt, ask your nearest DevOps. The server is a shared resource and it'll only work if everyone plays by the rules voluntarily. Cheers, Sven

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[arch-devops] Devops meeting summary - 02-01-2020
by Jelle van der Waa 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

Hi all, I forgot to send a notification out, but we had a short meeting yesterday night. Most of the discussions where follow ups and one new topic about a shared password manager for the Arch team. You can read the notes here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:DevopsMeetings/2020-01-02

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[arch-devops] soyuz (pkgbuild.com) server move to homedir.archlinux.org
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Hi all, I set up a new Hetzner VPS that is going to become our new homedir/public_html server available to all TUs and Devs like soyuz was. We decided to decommission soyuz and put the public_html stuff on its own server for security reasons, to cut costs, and so that we can compartmentalize further. The server uses a Hetzner Cloud Volume which we can scale if we want but for now, it's 100GiB of zstd-compressed btrfs. If possible, we'd like to keep it at this size for the time being. You can host your own repos there if you want and that's fine. Please talk to us beforehand if you see yourself exhausting the volume with what you want to do. If you had stuff hosted in the public_html of soyuz, I'd ask you to transfer stuff over to the new box which is already reachable at the names pkgbuild.com (you'll get an SSH error because of this) and homedir.archlinux.org. Please check if you can throw away some old stuff/junk that you might not necessarily need on the new server. This new box is *not for building*. That's what dragon is for. Please only put documents/files onto the new pkgbuild.com that you actually want people to be able to access publicly. The box has no building facilities and you get no sudo'd commands. soyuz is going to be decommissioned no sooner than 2020-01-01 but do not expect it to hang around for long after that. We will not transfer any files for you from soyuz. In other words: All data not explicitly transferred by you will be destroyed after 2020-01-01. Please bring up any problems you might have with this new server on the arch-devops list or IRC (#archlinux-devops). Enjoy, Sven

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