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

2023-03-22

• Last time

🏆 Wins

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 Terraform :)
• Thundering herd testing passed—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

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Upstream

• Some moby/buildkit stuff:

😶 Let's keep this empty

• +1'd gerrit changes
• Gerrit access requests

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

• 13-15 Mon-Wed: Dan (building cabinets)
• 16–21 Thu–Tue: Tyler (running https://www.madmooseevents.com/canyonlands-half-marathon on the 18th 😬)
• 23 & 24 Thu–Fri: Jaime
• 24 Fri: Jeena volunteering
• 27 Mon: Brennen in NYC, unclear about working situation

April 2023

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

May 2023

* 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

July 2023

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

🔥🚂 Train

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

• K8s training options
  • Kubernetes Administration
    • LFS258 Kubernetes Fundamentals (eLearning, $595 USD—includes CKA, $299 w/o CKA) ← Fits within your learning budget
      • https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/kubernetes-fundamentals-lfs258-cka-exam-bundle/
    • LFS458 Kubernetes Administration (instructor-led, $3,250 USD—includes CKA)
  • 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]

• Offsite topics—tentatively May 5th https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#
• Next sprint topics—https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZS4g3zZR7XzLvJGzlL1WKazu0xWnz6sZY1Y_1z7D1Os/edit#