2020-12-11 - Sys Ops & Management SIG Agenda and Notes

Date

11 Dec 2020

Attendees

• Ingolf Kuss
• Tod Olson
• Dale Arntson
• jroot
• Johannes Drexl
• Anton Emelianov (Deactivated)
• Catherine Smith
• Chris Rutledge
• Darsi Rueda
• Florian Gleixner
• Michelle Suranofsky

Meeting Link

•  https://zoom.us/j/591934220
• Password: folio-lsp

Discussion items

Action items

• Jason/Ingolf : invite Lucy Liu to one of the next SysOps meetings.

Q3 Installation experiences

Ingolf:

• Updated single server from Q2 but all data were gone
• Problems with (missing?) pg_trm

Jason:

• Has not yet migrated to Q3 but tested the prereleased Q3's
• Rather migrate on fresh builds
• Planning to move from Chef to Ansible

Dale raises the issue where customized reference data are overwritten by updates.

Jason agree there is still a lot of handwork to do when migrating

Common topics

Deployments single server vs rancher/kubernetes

• Single server based on Vagrant mostly supposed to be for module developers who also uses the CI/CD deployments
• Rancher/Kubernetes
  • High entrance but once set up it is very easy to manage and handle since FOLIO instances can easy
    newly setup, cloned or teared down, which is a huge benefit while testing migrations

What kind of the deployments in the Single server vs rancher/kubernetes?

• TAMU: rancher/kubernetes
• Chicago: has both
• LZ Munich: single server on openstack
• HBZ & Mainz: single server

About Postgres

• Officially supported postgres is version 9-10
• Jason is currently using postgres 11 and ran into no issues so far.
• Dale suggested using Postgres 12 since moving to Java 11 this should be possible

About Documentation

• Where is the best place to have this documentation?
  → should ask Marcia next week
• Documentation should distinguish between a common single server and a kubernetes setup
• Also destinction between local and cloud services
• Rancher/Kubernetes documentation should be rather on a on premise setup than on AWS
• Rancher/Kubernetes and AWS documentation is very outdated but steps didn't changed too much
• DevOps and SysOps should write on the documentation together

Most Institutions implementing 2021 plan to go live on Iris release