Datacenter Move

Still don't have access to our new hardware, but I'm hoping early next week I will. I did find out a good deal more about networking there and setup our dhcp server already with all the mac addresses and ip's for the management interfaces. As soon as that comes up they should just get the right addresses and be ready to work on.

Next week then would be spent setting firmware the way we want it, testing a few install paramaters to make sure how we want to install the hosts, then move on to installing all the machines.

Then on to bootstrapping things up (we need a dns server, a tftp server, etc) and then installing openshift clusters and virthosts.

So, we are still on track for the move in June as long as the management access comes in next week as planned.

nftables in production

We rolled out our switch from iptables to nftables in production on thursday. Big shout out to James Antill for all the scripting work and getting things so they could migrate without downtime.

The switch did take a bit longer than we would have liked, and there were a few small hiccups, but overall it went pretty well.

There are still some few openqa worker machines we are going to migrate next week, but otherwise we are all switched.

Staging koji synced

To allow for some testing, I did a sync of our production koji data over to the staging instance. This takes a long long time because it loads the prod db in, vacuums it, then modifies it for staging.

There was a bit of breakage at the end (I needed to change some sequences) but otherwise it went fine and now staging has all the same tags/etc as production does.

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