Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-22
2023-03-22[edit]
🏆 Wins[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Some moby/buildkit stuff:
😶 Let's keep this empty[edit]
📅 Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 21 April Global holiday: Earth Day
- (tentatively) 04/17 - 04/28 Antoine
May 2023[edit]
* 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[edit]
July 2023[edit]
July 6-11: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
🔥🚂 Train[edit]
- 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[edit]
- K8s training options
- Kubernetes Administration
- LFS258 Kubernetes Fundamentals (eLearning, $595 USD—includes CKA, $299 w/o CKA) ← Fits within your learning budget
- 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]
- Kubernetes Administration
- 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#