Planet GNOME

As you may have noticed from outage and maintenance notes we sent out last week the GNOME Infrastructure has been undergoing a major redesign due to the need of moving to a different datacenter. It’s probably a good time to update the Foundation membership, contributors and generally anyone consuming the multitude of services we maintain of what we’ve been up to during these past months. New Data Center One of the core projects for 2020 was moving off services from the previous DC we were in (located in PHX2, Arizona) over to the Red Hat community cage located in RAL3. [Read More]

During GUADEC 2018 we announced one of the core plans of this and the coming year: it being moving as many GNOME web applications as possible to the GNOME Openshift instance we architected, deployed and configured back in July. Moving to Openshift will allow us to: Save up on resources as we’re deprecating and decommissioning VMs only running a single service Allow app maintainers to use the most recent Python, Ruby, preferred framework or programming language release without being tied to the release RHEL ships with Additional layer of security: containers Allow app owners to modify and publish content without requiring external help Increased apps redundancy, scalability, availability Direct integration with any VCS that ships with webhooks support as we can trigger the Openshift provided endpoint whenever a commit has occurred to generate a new build / deployment Architecture The cluster consists of 3 master nodes (controllers, api, etcd), 4 compute nodes and 2 infrastructure nodes (internal docker registry, cluster console, haproxy-based routers, SSL edge termination). [Read More]

Been a while since GUADEC 2018 has ended but subsequent travels and tasks reduced the time to write up a quick summary of what happened during this year’s GNOME conference. The topics I’d like to emphasize mainly are: We’re hiring another Infrastructure Team member We’ve successfully finalized the cgit to GitLab migration Future plans including the migration to Openshift GNOME Foundation hirings With the recent donation of 1M the Foundation has started recruiting on a variety of different new professional roles including a new Infrastructure team member. [Read More]

I haven’t been blogging so much in the past months as I actually promised myself I would have but given the fact a lot has been done on the GNOME Infrastructure lately it’s time for me to announce all the updates we did since my latest blog post. So here we come with all the items we’ve been looking at recently: Our main LDAP istance was moved from a very ancient machine (which unfortunately died with a broken disk a few weeks ago) to a newer box that currently contains several other admin tools like Mango and Daily Reports. [Read More]

It’s been more than a month now since I started looking into the many outstanding items we had waiting on our To Do list here at the GNOME Infrastructure. A lot has been done and a lot has yet to come during the next months, but I would like to share with you some of the things I managed to look at during these weeks. As you may understand many Sysadmin’s tasks are not perceived at all by users especially the ones related to the so-called “Puppet-ization” which refers to the process of creating / modifying / improving our internal Puppet repository. [Read More]

Debian maintainer: Some days ago I had the great announcement that my Debian Maintainer‘s application was accepted and thanks to Jonathan McDowell my key is finally into the debian-maintainers keyring. (which is now part of the debian-keyring itself thanks to the ftp-masters / keyring maintainer work that made the changes on both DAK and keyring) I applied on the 22th of August, and thanks to Reinhard’s advocation, everything went on the right side. [Read More]