2022-08-19 - Sys Ops & Management SIG Agenda and Meeting notes

Presentation about FOLIO Deployment at LRZ Munich

Florian Kreft

Florian Kreft will give a presentation about FOLIO deployment at LRZ Munich

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Slides: 

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Discussion notes:

- multitenant system for libraries in Bavaria
  several different FOLIO installations
  keep it flexible - use Helm charts
- The Helm approach has already many things built in it
- Helm makes templates out of the configuration files for Kubernetes
- Bare Metal servers with SuSE Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes installed with Kubespray
- gitlab is used for version control for the Helm charts
- kubegres operator for postgres (1 project maintained by one person)
Installation in only 3 steps:
   - build new Stripes container
   - Adjust global and tenant values
   - Helm install
It takes 10 Minutes to build Stripes, 10 Minutes to build the modules.
It does not take more than 30 minutes up to one hour to build a new tenant.
That is, if you don't do upgrades and don't load sample data.
Jason: If you upgrade instances, which has a lot of data, it takes 6 or 8 hours.
        The upgrade from Juniper to Kiwi took 45 minutes, and the same time from Kiwi to Lotus.
        There wasn't a lot of inventory records that needed to be changed.
        You also have to run SQLs (remove duplicate barcodes, e.g.) which take as long as the upgrade.
        I take down the frontend down while I do an upgrade so that nobody logs into the system.
        But for a Fiscal Rollover, I need the UI. But one might disable the Ingress.

Plan Operational Needs session for WOLFCon 2022

Ingolf Kuss

This will be done in a small group on Tuesday, 10 CT - only the speakers. Ask me, if you would like to participate in that planning meeting so I can send you an invitation.