Turns out. Like expected I am not able to write one post per week, and I didn't manage to pick up after two weeks of vacation. When reading the weekly posts again, they seem kind of weird. Which is not bad, but nut worse the time. So I call the my first attempt to write a series to be failed.
Anyway. Natually, not each week is equally interresting. I will try to pick up interresting topic here, and try to go a bit into detail.
No such meeting Monday. This week, our all-hands-meeting was moved to Tuesday. Because most people in my team were on vacation, we did a short daily instead of a 1 hour weekly. More time to do real work :) I returned to the cluster wide unattended update. I worked at least half of the day on this topic. Another look into the networking setup of our lab and some more documenation did the rest of it.
Starting with meeting Monday. The first half of the day was gone for this. After lunch, I had to add another authentication mechanism to our MachineDB. In fact this is a Flask-app which uses ldap as an authentication backend. We have to put this part of the software into a place without any access to our ldap. Since we use postgres as the DB backend, I created another authentication backend, using postgres. In the afternoon I helped a fellow with some scripts to setup floating ip networking to our lab cluster.
This is the third approach to write a weekly, and the first one, I totally failed. I didn't make any notes of the week :/
But let's start anyway. This week was covered by a re-deployment of our lab. As expected several things went wrong, and we had to fix it iteratively. Nothing special so far. This couldn't be sticked to one special day. Like describe in the last weeks, I digged around in our network setup. This week, I took my time and documented it down into our IPAM nipap. That includes all the transfer nets and all public IPs assigned to us. In case of service IPs, I documented the "function" as well. We are now able to collect new IPs directly from this pools, without having to grep config files, and hope you catched everything.
Starting this week with minor devel tasks. Two weeks before, I implemented a feature in our machine database, to be able to talk to different consul datacenters. There were some review comments, I had to fix. This enables us to talk to reach the consul cluster of our lab, even though the machine database is located in a different cluster.
My colleagues started to roll out our ansible roles to the lab cluster. Since we changed lots of stuff to support multiple clusters, we expect the rollout to be painful. And it did not last long to run into the first error. The storage manager crashes, due to a wrong usage of [pathlib.PosixPath]{.title-ref}. I fixed those issues, and built debian packages as well. Whereas building debs was the most painful part of this task.
This is the first attempt to write about my week in tech. More about the things I did, and less about things I read about. First of all, this is for me. So times, I tend to be a bit frustrated about being caught in a treadmill. So I really don't know where this is going.
Let's step into this week. It was going to be a short week. I'm still on part time, and working 30h a week. This week from Monday to Thursday. The main task, and target as well, was bootstrapping the hardware nodes for our second OpenStack Cloud, which is going to be a lab. Means, this is the second time to bootstrap with our automation, and the first time doing it from zero to working in without steps in between.