Engineering Log 2020-07-10

Centos 8 Formula Updates

This project started on Monday (6/Jul/20) and the team is two formulas away from completing the “simple” formulas. During the test phase of ops-minion, I found what looks to be a bug in kitchen-ci related to the lifecycle hooks.

>>>>>> ------Exception-------
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::UserError
>>>>>> Message: Unknown lifecycle hook target {}

Running checks on the kitchen versions of my workstation and the jenkins buildhost showed a big discrepancy.

workstation: 2.5.1
buildhost: 1.23

Attempts to install a new buildhost were met with errors in deployment. For example the at package was recently removed from ops-gpgks, but it is also missing from the kickstart image in img-instance-builds.

In addition, the saltdk installation failed to install kitchen. I further checked the vm settings in vcenter and discovered that CPU passthru is locked and I dont seem to have valid rights to enable it anymore. This is incredibly frustrating because it seems like my access rights change from week to week. I recenty made this same change for opsfed01 successfully so that Koji builds would work.

RT Bridge

Max ████████ called to discuss the new directions for RT that have been placed upon him. He relayed that Ram ██████ has added more services to the expected deployment of rt-brdige and now the scheduled cut over time will be missed. Ram has to be repeatedly told our work methods. At this point it is clear that he does not want to work with us to increase reliability.