Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-01


2023-03-01

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πŸ† Wins

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Feb '22 edition
  • Buildkit upstream patch to make client connections more robust in case of loss
  • Smooth wmf.22 train
  • docker-pkg build --list \o/
  • Isolating build containers in buildkit in privilege mode
  • Mr. Widget should be deployable, I think (as soon as secrets are actually stashed)
  • Pushed up patches for JWT (hopefully the final ones :D)
  • Deployed production releases-jenkins using scap3!
  • Patched scap to be smarter about interrupted helm deploys!
  • See Slack://WikiLove thread re: scap backportΒ 
    • "90% reduction in time spent in existential dread" ← going on a slide deck somewhere!
  • fixed scap backport for dependencies
Mar '22 edition
  • New scap self-install in production
  • Learned too much about iptables

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Upstream
  • Some moby/buildkit stuff:

😢 Let's keep this empty

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πŸ“… Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

March 2023

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πŸ”₯πŸš‚ Train

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https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar


  • 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
  • 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
  • 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
  • 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
  • 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
  • 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
  • 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
  • 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
  • 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
  • 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
  • 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
  • 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad + Ahmon

Team discussions

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  • k8s-sig meeting yesterday
    • persistent storage needs
    • harbor opennessΒ :)
    • training across the org for k8s
    • docker-shim deprecation