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2018-04-05 - System Operations and Management SIG Notes

2018-04-05 - System Operations and Management SIG Notes

Apr 06, 2018

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TimeItemWhoNotes
AdministrationChis
 5 minReview action itemsChris 

WOLFcon topic review
  • Monday session = hands on rather than demo, hackathon. Christopher Creswellmentioned that they will use VMWare to create multi-node sessions during deployment. Cornell will use AWS. TAMU VMWare. UChicago is keeping all options open. The reference platform will be created with/for VMware, and AWS users will spin off a "Here's how" document.
  • Tues - Data migration process flow, conflicts with early implementers am meeting(they also meet in pm)

Discuss install experiences
  • TAMU is looking at orchestration solutions to install without OKAPI. Everything from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes.
  • Brandon Tharp mentioned the notes on the wiki page: Deployment at TAMU.
  • There is not enough documentation to spin up all these containers so they have had to compile the source code.
  • Integration support needs to get on the roadmap.
  • Tod Olson proposed that the project be consistent in the container organization tool used - should the project settle on one, Swarm, Kubernetes, etc., that would give us a better chance of moving forward together.
  • FOLIO is resource-intensive; need multiple docker containers. Vagrant doesn't work that way. Vagrant not suitable for production FOLIO environment.
  • Tod remarked that the group should find out where FOLIO is resource intensive through testing - can optimization be done?
  • Questions were raised about storage deployment, but that is unknown at this time. There's no routine multi-master model - rather difficult with Postgres. Unless you push "the magic button" to use Aurora with AWS.
    • What is the actual availability of the database - in the old model under Voyager a single Oracle database was sufficient for 20 years, with periodically scheduled downtimw.
    • Microservices are supposed to lend themselves to stateless architecture but that's hard to reconcile with traditional databases that are always "on."
  • Next meeting: LS tool system at Cornell. Demo with Chris Manly and Holly Mistlebauer

Action items

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