Infrastructure Team Meeting - October 10, 2022

[dduportal (Damien Duportal)]

2022 10 11 Jenkins Infra Meeting

Attendees

• @dduportal (Damien Duportal)
• @hlemeur (Hervé Le Meur)
• @smerle33 (Stéphane Merle)
• @poddingue (Bruno Verachten)
• @ Bob Miles
• @kmartens27 (Kevin Martens)

Bob Miles from Salad.com

• Checking in to see the status of Jenkins Infra of the Salad. Unfortunately, we haven’t got any answer from the security team and have other subjects to tackle with for the time being.
• Bob should come back to us mid-november. We asked him about the energy consumption of a job with Salad. The feature does not exist yet, so he will add this to the list of wanted features.

Announcements

1. Weekly: looks good for 2.373. Checklist ongoing
2. Mark Waite is off until end of October (Happy holidays!)
3. Elections:
   • Damien leads, with Olivier Vernin as backup/help.
   • Need help from Kevin for writing blog post + update jenkins.io page

Upcoming Calendar

• Next Weekly: next tuesday as usual
• Next LTS:
  • Next RC: 10/19
  • LTS 2nd of December
• Next Security Release: N.K.
• Next major event: Hacktoberfest \o/

Notes

• Done:

  • Add petejax to helix-alm-test-management
  • Invite gounthar to jenkins-infra org
  • Hosting team onboarding
  • (October 2022) Update VPN CRL
  • Update Jenkins Infrastructure to latest LTS version (2.361.2)
  • [INFRA-3092] Service to redirect wiki requests to exported Confluence content or to a search on jenkins.io
    • new “spooky” look with deprecation banner on wiki.jenkins.io
  • Install pipeline-graph-view-plugin on release.ci.j
  • [ci.jenkins.io] collect datadog metrics for ephemeral VMs
  • No account creating email received
    • Closing as no answer from requester

• Work In Progress:

  • (Re) Introduce an artifact caching proxy for ci.jenkins.io
    • WiP on EKS (new cluster is working) with NLB AWS, ingress in progress.
    • Next step (once proxy caching is working in AWS): pipeline library for windows and try on some plugins (opt-in)
    • Final step: switch to opt-out (with a communication the dev mailing list)
  • https://twitter.com/jenkins_release is many weeks behind
    • Reminder: we weren’t able to meet KK for dlvr.it
    • Herve is working on an alternative for RSS → twitter.
    • Draft PR to install this application: feat: add rss2twitter chart by lemeurherve · Pull Request #240 · jenkins-infra/helm-charts · GitHub
  • https://ci.jenkins.io/job/Infra/job/stories/ is not handling PRs
    • We did not had time for that
    • Removing Mark as assignee
  • Lost access to publish releases for Crowd2 plugin
    • Damien takes it from there
  • [INFRA-2754] Realign repo.jenkins-ci.org mission
    • Damien to ask help from Basil
  • add datadog initialisation on windows vm
    • All ephemeral agents on ci.jenkins.io are sending metrics to datadog \o/
    • Next step: dashboard for a first set of metrics
  • [pkg.jenkins.io,releases] Finish cleanup of mirrorbrain
    • Damien: nothing done yet
  • Publish pipeline-steps-doc-generator and backend-extension-indexer artifacts to some kind of storage
    • infra.ci to be updated to have the required tools/agent labels.
    • Blocker for moving jenkins.io-cn from trusted.ci to infra.ci

• ToDo (next milestone) (infra-team-sync-2022-10-18 Milestone · GitHub)

  • Remove lockable-resources plugin from private infra
  • Add ircbot repo to infra org folder on ci.jenkins.io
    • Damien takes it: should be like plugin-health
    • Note from Hervé: there is an issue on ci.j when deploying jenkins4eval Docker images
  • Keycloak performance horrific when looking up / modifying users
    • Damien and Stephane
  • update center json returning 404 · Issue #3161 · jenkins-infra/helpdesk · GitHub => to check with Daniel for history
  • Windows agents are soooooooooo slooooooooooooooooooow · Issue #3117 · jenkins-infra/helpdesk · GitHub
    • Damien to check Windows caching and then Stephane to implement it if needed
  • Build failing with https://repo.jenkins-ci.org/releases/org/jenkins-ci/main/jenkins-core/2.361/jenkins-core-2.361-java Not Found. · Issue #48 · jenkins-infra/javadoc · GitHub => fixed by Basil. Expectation for being maintained by the infra-team.
  • Upgrade to Kubernetes 1.23