Datacenter move

The switch week is still scheduled for the week of June 30th. We made some progress this last week on installs. Got everything setup to install a bunch of servers. I installed a few and kept building out services. I was mostly focusing on getting things setup so I could install openshift clusters in both prod and staging. That will let us move applications. I also setup to do rhel10 installs and installed a test virthost. There's still a few things missing from epel10 that we need: nagios clients, collectd (thats on me) and zabbix clients, otherwise the changes were reasonably minor. I might try and use rhel10 for a few things, but I don't want to spend a lot of time on it as we don't have much time.

Flock

Flock is next week! If you are looking for me, I will be traveling basically all monday and tuesday, then in prague from tuesday to very early sunday morning, when I travel back home.

If you are going to flock and want to chat, please feel free to catch me and/or drop me a note to try and meet you. Happy to talk!

If you aren't going to flock, I'm hoping everything is pretty quiet infrastructure wise. I will try and check in on any major issues, but do try and file tickets on things instead of posting to mailing lists or matrix.

I'd also like to remind everyone going to flock that we try and not actually decide anything there. It's for discussion and learning and putting a human face on your fellow contributors. Make plans, propose things definitely, just make sure after flock you use our usual channels to discuss and actually decide things. Deciscions shouldn't be made offline where those not present can't provide input.

I'm likely to do blog posts about flock days, but may be delayed until after the event. There's likely not going to be a regular saturday post next week from me.

Arm laptop

So, I successfully used this Lenovo slim7x all week, so I guess I am going to try and use it for my flock travel. Hopefully it will all work out. :)

Issues I have run into in no particular order:

• There are a bunch of various people working on various things, and all of that work touches the devicetree file. This makes it a nightmare to try and have a dtb with working bluetooth, ec, webcam, sound, suspend, etc. I really hope a bunch of this stuff lands upstream soon. For now I just Have a kernel with bluetooth and ec working and am ignoring sound and webcam.

• s2idle sleep "works", but I don't trust it. I suspended the other day when I was running some errands, and when I got home, the laptop had come on and was super super hot (it was under a jacket to make it less a theft target). So, I might just shutdown most of the time traveling. There's a patch to fix deep sleep, but see above.

• I did wake up one day and it had rebooted, no idea why...

• Otherwise everything is working fine and it's pretty nice and zippy.

• Battery life is... ok. 7-8 hours. It's not hitting the lowest power states yet, but that will do I think for my needs for now.

So, hopefully it will all work. :)

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