Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-22

2023-03-22

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πŸ† Wins

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Mar '22 edition
  • New scap self-install in production
  • Learned too much about iptables
  • Moved gitlab-cloud-runner Helm stuff to TerraformΒ :)
  • Thundering herd testing passedβ€”k8s can handle 100 concurrent job
  • Phab release prepped
  • docker-gc is blubberized and kokkorized
  • found and deleted docker image based on obsolete debian version (stretch)
  • made terraform plan run before merge
  • Tentative optimism for CKA
  • Monte's having success using the phab api to build different views of tasks
  • Mr Widget deployed
  • gitlab-cloud-runner stress tests successful!
  • Dockerhub mirror admission controller

🌻 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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April 2023

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  • 21 April Global holiday: Earth Day
  • (tentatively) 04/17 - 04/28 Antoine


May 2023

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* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day
  • 08 Mon: Antoine, WW2 armistice
  • 08-12: Dancy - school outdoor ed trip
  • 15-25: Dan - vacation
  • 15-22: Chad - vacation + Hackathon in Athens
  • 29 Mon: Memorial Day, US Staff with Reqs

June 2023

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July 2023

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July 6-11: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)

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 Dan + Ahmon
  • 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
  • 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
  • 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Antoine

Team discussions

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  • K8s training options
    • Kubernetes Administration
    • Bulk discounts
      • 2 students, 10% off
      • 3-4 students, 15% off
      • 5+ students, 20% off
    • No budget for the instructor led class this fiscal. No guarantees for next fiscal
    • Interested? Initial below.
      • [+TC] [+AD] [+BB]