Infrastructure Team Meeting - March 12, 2024

[MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)]

2024 03 12 Jenkins Infra Meeting

Attendees

• @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
• @smerle33 (Stéphane Merle)
• @hlemeur (Hervé Le Meur)

Announcements

1. Weekly : 2.449 - in progress (ftp-chi.osuosl.org is offline, mirrors delayed)
   • Two mirrors already have the bits
   • Confirmed the container images are available
   • Will update weekly.jenkins.io later today
2. Announcement
   • Ampere has lent an ARM64 server to the Jenkins project
     • Configured and working as an agent in Mark’s test environment
     • Needs more work to identify best use of that server

Upcoming Calendar

• Next Weekly: 2.450 19 Mar 2024
• Next LTS: 2.440.2, 20 March 2024 - Kris Stern is release lead
  • Needs review and merge of changelog and upgrade guide - Mark Waite
• Next Security Release as per jenkinsci-advisories:
• Next major event:
  • SCaLE (Los Angeles) in 17-19 March. Alyssa, Basil and Mark attending
  • cdCon in April - Mark attending
    • Announce Jenkins award winners at cdCon
    • Voting is open until 18 Mar 2024 (see the announcement)

Notes

• Done:

  • qTest Jenkins plugin developer team cleanup - do not have team management permissions
  • Expiration of the Digital Oceans PATs [8 March 2024]
    • Calendar reminder was a good help, may want earlier notice
    • Configured two factor authentication for shared access by team
  • Disable / delete Jira spam creator xingdi
  • (Mars 2024) Update VPN CRL
    • Missed the calendar event on the expiration of the VPN CRL
    • Renewed the VPN CRL on Sunday, installed it
    • Added more calendar events to remind of expiration
  • CD tokens are not renewed
    • Fixed by service principal renewal performed by Herve
    • Missed the calendar event on the weekend
  • SuggestiMate for Jira license needs to be renewed
    • Done by Linux Foundation
  • Raise qTest plugin team permission
  • Disable / delete spam creator tokmatik
    • Same pattern as Disable / delete Jira spam creator xingdi
  • PR not getting built
  • Exclude JB Space from ACP
  • Archive EOL l10n-server repository
  • Crawler fails due to lack of authentication
  • ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de blocked my provider

• Closed as not planned:

  • not robo
  • Evaluate cleanowners for CODEOWNERS files
  • Remove Jira component lib-support-log-formatter

• Work In Progress:

  • New Jenkins mirror in Romania by Hostico
  • Artifact Caching Proxy (ACP) does not cache artifacts from Maven Central
  • Can not login success
  • [plugin-health-scoring] Configure new job on ci.jenkins.io
  • unable to login to page with the credentials used to create
  • The UpdateCli step fails regularly when processing jenkins.io PRs
  • Artifacts proxy does not deliver incremental jars
  • [AWS] Migrate ci.jenkins.io EKS clusters from CloudBees AWS account to Jenkins AWS (sponsored) account
  • Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.27
  • Add a new private kubernetes cluster in the new sponsored azure subscription
  • Unexpected delays building small plugin on linux agent
  • To host versioned jenkins.io docs on docs.jenkins.io
  • infra.ci.jenkins.io on arm64 (controller and agents)
  • Check if we could replace blobxfer by azcopy
    • Replaced already in the crawler
    • Replaced already in the javadoc process
    • The javadoc copy improved dramatically
      • 11 to 13 minutes instead of 40-70 minutes
  • [INFRA-3100] Migrate updates.jenkins.io to another Cloud
    • Updated pull request to synchronize to R2 buckets
    • Merged by the Daniel Beck this morning
    • Spending 4 minutes 30 seconds to complete the copy
      • Instead of 2 minutes 30 seconds current
      • Includes a kubectl call that triggers mirrorbits scan
    • Daniel has agreed we can change the cron cycle from 3 minutes to 5 minutes for each job
      • Herve has run many jobs to confirm most recent are less than 5 minutes

• ToDo (next milestone) (infra-team-sync-2024-03-19 Milestone · GitHub)