On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, at 4:15 AM, Sorin Sbarnea wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In response to 
> https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/upstream-investment-opportunities/2019/community-infrastructure-sysadmins.html
>  would like to state that I am more than willing to help the openstack-infra 
> team with sysadmin tasks needed.
> 
> I am fully aware this will require me investing more time on infra 
> specific tasks but I am glad it do have the support from my 
> organization for doing this.
> 
> As I was really happy about my last year experience with others from 
> infra and I valued a lot their help on various tasks, I want to also 
> return the favor and help with other chores or features we may need do 
> to make our CI even better.
> 
> So mainly, just let me know what needs should be done?

Current priority efforts include OpenDev-ification of services and updating 
config management for puppet managed services to ansible and containers.

To opendevify services we are updating them to be hosted at opendev.org domains 
as well as updating theming if necessary to incorporate the opendev logo and 
color scheme. In many cases we want to install redirects from the old 
openstack.org names to the new opendev.org name. For services with SSL/TLS this 
is likely the trickiest bit of the conversion as our plan is to use LetsEncrypt 
for opendev.org names. Thankfully, we've sorted out a plan [0] for managing 
openstack.org names with LetsEncrypt certs as well.

For the config management updates we've been converting deployments of services 
from puppet to ansible and in many cases having ansible drive docker-compose to 
do the actual deployments. This process typically starts by determining if we 
can use an upstream image or not. If not we add a Dockerfile and corresponding 
image build jobs to the opendev/system-config repo. Then we can add jobs to 
test deployment of those containers and finally deploy to production via this 
method. The great thing about this process is we can fully test the deployment 
easily and there are many examples of that in system-config now (see Gitea).

Whether or not it makes more sense to convert a service to opendev or update 
its config management first, likely depends on how difficult it is to set up 
SSL/TLS for multiple domains. My hunch is that for most services doing the 
config management update with the SSL/TLS needs in mind is likely easiest.

If you'd like a concrete place to start I would suggest taking a service like 
ethercalc or etherpad, udpate its config management to ansible + 
docker-compose, implement test jobs as others have, then when all that is happy 
you can work with an infra root to replace our deployment of these services in 
production. Then if we haven't already done it in conjunction with the config 
management updates we can update the SSL/TLS setup and convert to an opendev 
service.

Another different but slightly related OpenDev topic is to start implementing 
tooling so that top level orgs can manage their repositories directly. At the 
PTG we discussed doing this via a meta project per repo that determines who is 
allowed to make those changes, then via ansible of some sort implement those 
updates when the appropriate approvers have ACKed the change. This likely needs 
a bit of design work just to be sure we are all in agreement of the plan. A 
lightweight spec would be helpful.

[0] 
https://opendev.org/opendev/infra-specs/src/branch/master/specs/retire-static.rst#opendev-infrastructure-migration

Hope this helps. Feel free to dig in or ask questions and I'll do my best to 
expand on this  topic.

Clark

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