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

[arch-devops] Meeting 30 July 18:30 UTC - 20:30 CEST
by Jelle van der Waa 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

Hi All, On Thursday we have another devops meetings with the following topics: * Gitlab go live, limits and monitoring * Grafana/prometheus * AUR migration notes/improvements * Next server(s) to migrate Greetings, Jelle

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[arch-devops] Meeting 16 July 18:30 UTC - 20:30 CEST
by Jelle van der Waa 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

Hi all, Tommorow we have another devops meeting, topics: * prometheus monitoring * revoking access to inactive members * finer grained access * password manager * freswa Cya tommorow, Jelle

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[arch-devops] Add Frederik Schwan to the devops team
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

Hey all, I propose adding Frederik Schwan to the devops team. He's eager to help Arch, he's knowledgeable, and does devops professionally. He's got a good amount of experience with mail stacks and cloud stuff and he'd like to help us out. In fact, he's already helped quite a bit with testing and some accessless devops tasks but the number of tasks requiring access that we currently have far outweigh the accessless tasks and I think he'd like to become more involved. Thoughts? Cheers, Sven

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[arch-devops] Let's change our primary backup to a managed storage box
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 09 Jul '20

09 Jul '20

Hey all, I want to suggest we change our primary backup box to a managed box, namely a BX60 from Hetzner [0] for 40€/m with 10TB capacity. We currently have a SB35 with 2x3TB in a RAID1. The current box (vostok) is getting full and is sitting at 20% capacity remaining. The storage box supports Borg and so it's unlikely that we'll have to change our backup scheme. Why a BX60 and not a BX50 even though the capacity would currently suffice? I'd like to also start backing up the archive. The archive will become more relevant in Arch as reproducible builds gain more popularity and I think keeping the archive alive and well is an important part of that. We currently do not back up the archive for capacity reasons but we should start doing that. BX50 with its 5TB puts us too close to our projected needs (roughly 2.3TB (current effective backup size) + 2.3TB (archive)). Advantages of a BX60: - Less stuff to manage as Hetzner will handle disk failures and updates for us - More redundancy (FAQ says it can tolerate multiple disk failures while we can currently only handle a single disk failure) - Much higher capacity (about 3.4x as much) Disadvantages: - 10€ more per month - We'll have to migrate (though probably pretty easy to do as the backup stuff is pretty nicely ansibled) - Only 10 connections allowed at once (workable for us but worth mentioning) - We currently have no operating experience with storage boxes from Hetzner What do you think? Cheers, Sven [0] https://www.hetzner.de/storage/storage-box/bx60

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