Here's your monthly microdose of sysadmin news, happy holidays for people that have them... # Roll call: who's there and emergencies the usual fires. anarcat, kez, lavamind present. # Dashboard review Normal per-user check-in: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&a... * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&a... * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&a... General dashboards: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards/117 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/web/-/boards * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/boards # 2023 roadmap discussion Discuss and adopt TPA-RFC-42: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-42-roadmap... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40924 Revised proposal: * do the bookworm upgrades, this includes: * puppet server 7 * puppet agent 7 * plan would be: * Q1-Q2: deploy new machines with bookworm * Q1-Q4: upgrade existing machines to bookworm * email services improvements (TPA-RFC-44 2nd generation) * upgrade Schleuder and Mailman * self-hosting Discourse? * complete the cymru migration (e.g. execute TPA-RFC-40) * retire gitolite/gitweb (e.g. execute TPA-RFC-36) * retire SVN (e.g. execute TPA-RFC-11) * monitoring system overhaul (TPA-RFC-33) * deploy a Puppet CI Meeting on wednesday for the web stuff. Proposal adopted. Worries about our capacity at hosting email, some of the concerns are shared inside the team, but there doesn't seem to be many other options for the scale we're working at. # Holidays confirmation Confirmed people's dates of availability for the holidays. # Next meeting January 9th. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 94, LDAP: 94, Prometheus exporters: 163 * number of Apache servers monitored: 31, hits per second: 744 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 9 * pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 4 * average load: 0.83, memory available: 4.46 TiB/5.74 TiB, running processes: 745 * disk free/total: 33.12 TiB/92.27 TiB * bytes sent: 404.70 MB/s, received: 230.86 MB/s * planned bullseye upgrades completion date: 2022-11-16, AKA "suspicious completion time in the past, data may be incomplete" * [GitLab tickets][]: 183 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 152 * backlog: 14 * next: 9 * doing: 5 * needs information: 3 * (closed: 2954) [Gitlab tickets]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards Upgrade prediction graph lives at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades/bullseye/ Now also available as the main Grafana dashboard. Head to <https://grafana.torproject.org/>, change the time period to 30 days, and wait a while for results to render. # Number of the month Three hundred thousand. The number of subscribers to the Tor newsletter (!). -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration