NT1 bi-weekly meeting

Wednesday 17 Mar 2021, 14:00 → 15:05 Europe/Copenhagen

Meeting slot for discussions, report on some cool technologies, coming changes , follow-up on activities, etc.

 Zoom link

Present: Maiken, Erik, Petter, Vincent, Jens, Mattias, Darren, Krishnaveni, Ville

•  Topics for next meeting:
  • Post FitSM training: What did we learn ? How to implement it ? All  - End of March
  • CI/CD for ARC Maiken - Mid-April
  • Grafana training
    • How to makes dashboard
    • Add plots with data sources: elastic search, postgres, promoetheus
    • Takes few ganglia plots and import them into grafana
    • Vincent, Maiken -- End of April
  • k8s
    • Darren
• Operator log: Extension of the add-entry script actions:Ville, Vincent
• Ansible tower (AWX)
  • AWX@NT1 discussion
    • How to import inventories ? by CLIs ?
    • How to import the nt1-ansible roles ?
  • Actions:
    • Deploy AWS on three VMs (microkits k8s) (Darren)
    • DB: dulkis, etc (Petter, Christian)
    • --> https://source.coderefinery.org/NT1/Operations/-/issues/122
    • Refactoring of our roles needed anyway (?)
    • --> https://source.coderefinery.org/NT1/Operations/-/issues/135
    • First playbook candidates: haproxy on experimental, dcache roles...
    • ---> Timeline: After easter 

 

14:00 → 14:05 News

Speaker: Vincent Garonne (University of Oslo (NO))

News:

• NT1 evaluation by NeIC started
  • List of questions to answer
  • Deliverable will be a 10-15 pages document
• NeSG Application submitted
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/19hm_4vOVfRsr6vCOPQJOtsF_p7v-ZdiD
  • 11 applications submitted
• dCache workshop
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITi3I2AhuBYZf88BsKNm-QaRwR4lCJwwuIYo3LxQkkA
  • 3 applications submitted
• Bergen staff news
• 4/5 Places to offer at the FitSM training
  • https://indico.egi.eu/event/5436/registration
• Next meeting: 
  • Wednesday 31st of March, 2PM
  • Topics ?
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cJTCbW6C25Kbadsu_rmN8J03NEWzoExYAXSQ0q8vSeU/

Highlights:

• https://source.coderefinery.org/NT1/Operations/-/blob/master/operators-log.md
• https://grafana.ndgf.org/?orgId=1

14:05 → 14:25 Ansible Tower

Speaker: Darren Starr (University of Oslo)