It looks like I haven't sent multiple previous minutes, so here is the last
several:
## Jul 14 Agenda
* 2 user requests for offline installation
* My IRC explanation
* For a disconnected install, you need to use RPMs (install from a
yum a mirror of pulp) rather than installing from pip packages, and you
need to add offline copies of repos to the system yourself beforehand.
*
https://pulp-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/roles/pulp_common/#role-variables-if-installing-from-rpms
* set pulp_install_plugins to packages
* Set pulp_pkg_repo to your network's copy of
https://yum.theforeman.org/pulpcore/3.7/el{{
ansible_distribution_major_version }}/$basearch/
* Add the other repos like the centos software collection (that
it tried to add) manually before running the installer.
* You also need to modify the files under /etc/yum.repos.d/
that got added by the packages centos-release-scl-rh and centos-release-scl
so that they are disabled, and your network's mirror is used instead.
* I've been meaning to implement a better alternative to #4:
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/8701
* Also, this requires CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 or CentOS 8 / RHEL 8.
Because RPM packages only exist for them (and they are actually provided by
our sister project Foreman, and they do not make every plugin available.)
## Jul 07 Agenda
* [Optimizing the db fields key generation](
https://github.com/pulp/community/discussions/47)
* I think I should stop spending time on this just because it is
optimizing code, and I've spent like 1.5 days on it.
* Mike to follow up with Dennis
* Mike still debugging the pulplift Mac issues
* Mike unable to reproducing DavidN's virtualbox performance issue,
which suggests something else on his laptop is amiss
## Jun 30 Agenda
* tons of backporting to 3.11
* lots of little CI breakage (actually ability to install breakage often)
* [pulplift on Mac issues](https://hackmd.io/IsVY2y8RQn6bPZjWOQTERQ)
* Dennis working on docker kfor the sake of the galaxy_ng devs
## Jun 16 Agenda
* Fixed CI with inspec
* Still need to schedule a scope reduction meeting
* Mike to survey what features / support are adding lots of code
complexity.
* Like causing really complex jinja2 in certain tasks.
## Jun 10 Agenda
* People not updating code in multiple places
* I want to apologize if it sounded like I was scolding in the 5/27
meeting.
* Bruno Rocha was affected by this recently (added cloning to
pulp_common, but cloning was in molecule prepare.yml)
* Do people have any suggestions on this other than encouraging devs to
grep?
* [ppicka] Dropping complexity will reduce code & minimize this
happening.
* I noticed inconsistencies between how we import keys:
* pulp webserver TLS has 3 vars:
* `pulp_webserver_tls_key`: Relative or absolute path to the TLS
(SSL) key
one wants to import.
* `pulp_webserver_tls_custom_ca_cert` A custom CA certificate to
import on the server.
* `pulp_webserver_tls_files_remote`: Whether or not
`pulp_webserver_tls_cert`,
`pulp_webserver_tls_key` & `pulp_webserver_tls_custom_ca_cert`
are on the webserver (`true`)
or on the ansible management node (`false`). Defaults to `false`.
* pulp token has 1 var:
* `pulp_token_auth_key`: Location of the openssl private key (in
pem format) to use for token
authentication. If not specified, a new key wil be generated.
* Should we add the latter 2 options for token auth?
* Agreed: Ask (& write up) if anyone will need the cert import.
They both make sense though.
* Scope reduction proposals
* Agreed: We will cover this in a separate meeting. Advertise to users?
* Problem: Too much work to maintain pulp_installer
* Proposed:
* 1. Drop support for upgrades from early Pulp 3.x releases.
* Eliminates need for this portion of [this epic]() "We no
longer need system-wide packages, so we should remove support for it, and
migrate user installs off of it, as safely as possible."
* 2. Drop EL7 support
* However, [adding Python 3.8 support was easy after all](
https://github.com/pulp/pulp_installer/pull/650/checks)
* [Awaiting confirmation that we can do this](
https://github.com/pulp/community/discussions/3#discussioncomment-841815)
* Pavel & mikedep333 agree that maintaining support for Ubuntu
would be much easier than maintaining support for EL7.
* Drop Python2 support from the managed node, but we can just
pre-require Python3 (assuming SELinux bindings exist.)
* 3. Drop Python2 support from the managmenet node.
* 4. Drop FIPS (& future-implemented SELinux) CI tests
* Another reason is that on some distros the source/devel CI
takes 1:40, others more like 4:00.
* We will encounter breakage at `vagrant up` time though.
* 5. What else? Othercustomization options like custom install
paths that bloat our ansible tasks with lots of jinja2?
* Latest CI failure
* Error downloading debian key:
https://github.com/pulp/pulp_installer/runs/2789307801?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:6348
* https://github.com/pulp/pulp_installer/pull/651
* Note: This is good that CI is catching unreliable 3rd party repos,
users would occassionally experience this.
--
Mike DePaulo
He / Him / His
Service Reliability Engineer, Pulp
Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/>
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