OKD Working Group Meeting Notes

May 24, 2022

Attendees:

• Jaime Magiera (University of Michigan)
• Bruce Link (BCIT)
• Timothée Ravier (Red Hat)
• Neal Gompa (Datto)
• Diane Mueller (Red Hat)
• Michael elmiko McCune (Red Hat)
• Jack Henschel (CERN)
• Erik Berg (UiO)

Agenda

• Agenda Review
• OKD Release updates (Christian)
  • Question: Operator count? There was a change, we don't know the details
• FCOS updates (Timothée)
  • Ignition config accessible to unprivileged software on VMware
  • Format change for Nutanix artifact
  • coreos autoinstall creates huge number of xfs allocation groups
    • https://docs.okd.io/latest/installing/installing_bare_metal/installing-bare-metal.html#installation-user-infra-machines-advanced_disk_installing-bare-metal
• Docs updates (Brian, Jaime)
• Issues
  • Plan for repository transition is being formulated. Please provide feedback.
  • Survey
    • Dhriti forwarded link to survey
    • Need feedback
  • Rook/Ceph status
    • Fix applied upstream, waiting for it to make its way down to us
    • John's Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063929 still open
• Discussions
  • Discussion 1231
• Project Updates
  • CRC
    • New name
    • see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_kjqMD6JlU at 9:51 in they talk about rebranding code ready workspaces to open shift dev spaces, and at 12:47 they talk about rebranding CEC to Openshift local. (This is dated April 8, 2022)
  • Operate First/Mass Open Cloud
    • Community managed CI/CD for OKD conversation(s) on the Boston University Cloud (MassOpenCloud)
  • CERN OKD on OpenStack
    • invitation to speak to working group on their DIY OKD build process (June 7) & in Dublin at Gathering (June 23?)
    • Jack Henschel (CERN)
• Tasks
  • Jaime - get 4.10 and 4.11 update info (ongoing)
  • Charro Gruver - gather OKD download stats from dl.fedoraproject.org or delegate
  • Daniel - Write up guides format into README in guides directory and then file tickets against people who have agreed to update them
  • Create troubleshooting dicsussion thread (Brian) - https://github.com/openshift/okd/discussions/1198
  • Find out about serial output for installs
    • manually editing /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes/ironic/_data/html/*.conf on the bootstrap node
    • https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/emergency-shell/
    • https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/installing/install_config/installing-customizing.html#installation-special-config-kargs_installing-customizing
    • or directly with kernelArguments for first boot: https://github.com/coreos/ignition/blob/main/docs/configuration-v3_3.md
  • find out about bare metal IPI install provding RHCOS nodes
  • Find out about DNS changes to support mx (Jaime and Diane)