[arch-devops] Devops meeting summary - 24/10

[Jelle van der Waa]

Hi all,

Below are the notes of the meeting of thursday.

# arch-devops meeting 2019-10-24

## BBS migration

### State
- The migration was set to happen last week, but was postponed.

### Who
- Jelle
- fukawi2

### Actionable
- Double check if avatars are migrated properly
- Put cookie seed in the ansible vault
- Set up new date for migration

## Gitlab

### State
- Keycloak and GitLab mockup is working kind of well
- Keycloak package's security needs to be improved

### Who
- Jerome
- Sven

### Actionable
- Improve Keycloak package, set up automation for it and put it on a VPS
- Connect GitLab to this Keycloak instance
- Write mail to arch-devops and arch-projects

## archiso

### State
- Gerardo stepped back as developer
- Building/testing of archiso stuff isn't automated

### Who
- Jelle

### Actionable
- Revoke git access for gerardo
- Figure out who can take over upstream development (accept patches, fixes, etc)

## Backup offsite

### State
- Asked rsync.net and they are happy to sponsor 10TB for us
- Waiting on reply from rsync.net

### Who
- Sven
- Jelle

### Actionable
- Find out how borg restoration works and where the encryption keys are actually stored
- Write documentation for adding a host to borg backups
- Write documentation on how to restore on the host and if the host is lost (docs/borg.txt)

## Geo mirror location

### State
- nginx-based approach is ok but only works for HTTP
- Should work with rsync as well
- foxxx0 made a patch and suggestion how to do this using PowerDNS

### Who
- foxxx0
- Sven

### Actionable
- Deferred

## Mirroring The Archive

### State
- No mirrored archives

### Who
- Sven
- Jelle

### Actionable
- Make a new ansible group which are allowed in the rsync config of the archive and make the PIA boxes archive.
- Make new ansible role for rsync clients for archive mirrors
- Make new ansible role for rsync server on orion for archive mirror provider

## Make archive of DevOps meeting notes

### Who
- Jelle

### Actionable
- Make wiki page with past devops meeting notes (on the devwiki)