Dear Cephers,
Today brought us an eventful CTL meeting: it looks like Jitsi recently
started requiring user authentication (anonymous users will get a "Waiting for a moderator" modal), but authentication didn't work against Google or GitHub accounts, so we had to move to the good old Google Meet.
As a result of this, Neha has kindly set up a new private Slack channel (#clt) to allow for quicker communication among CLT members (if you usually attend the CLT meeting and have not been added, please ping any CLT member to request that).
Now, let's move on the important stuff:
The latest Pacific Release (v16.2.14)
The Bad
The 14th drop of the Pacific release has landed with a few hiccups:
- Some .deb packages were made available to downloads.ceph.com before the release process completion. Although this is not the first time it happens, we want to ensure this is the last one, so we'd like to gather ideas to improve the release publishing process. Neha encouraged everyone to share ideas here:
- v16.2.14 also hit issues during the ceph-container stage. Laura wanted to raise awareness of its current setbacks and collect ideas to tackle them:
- Enforce reviews and mandatory CI checks
- Rework the current approach to use simple Dockerfiles
- Call the Ceph community for help: ceph-container is currently maintained part-time by a single contributor (Guillaume Abrioux). This sub-project would benefit from the sound expertise on containers among Ceph users. If you have ever considered contributing to Ceph, but felt a bit intimidated by C++, Paxos and race conditions, ceph-container is a good place to shed your fear.
The GoodNot everything about v16.2.14 was going to be bleak: David Orman brought us really good news. They tested v16.2.14 on a large production cluster (10gbit/s+ RGW and ~13PiB raw) and found that it solved
a major issue affecting RGW in Pacific.
The Ugly
During that testing, they noticed that ceph-mgr was occasionally OOM killed (nothing new to 16.2.14, as it was previously reported). They already tried:
- Disabling modules (like the restful one, which was a suspect)
- Enabling debug 20
- Turning the pg autoscaler off
Debugging will continue to characterize this issue:
Infrastructure
Reminder: Infrastructure Meeting Tomorrow. 11:30-12:30 Central Time
Patrick brought up the following topics:
- Need to reduce the OVH spending ($72k/year, which is a good cut in the Ceph Foundation budget, that's a lot less avocado sandwiches for the next Cephalocon):
- Move services (e.g.: Chacra) to the Sepia lab
- Re-use CentOS (and any spared/unused) machines for devel purposes
- Current Ceph sys admins are overloaded, so devel/community involvement would be much appreciated.
- More to be discussed in tomorrow's meeting. Please join if you think you can help solve/improve the Ceph infrastrucru!
BTW: today's CDM will be canceled, since no topics were proposed.