General information
- the Operations meeting will be on the 2nd Monday of the month
- the EGI Operations Meeting schedule for first half of 2016 is available on Indico: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=32 and on the new summary page: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations_Meeting
News from URT
- Preview repository
- Replace EMI from early 2016 on (will start from a EMI3 mirror)
- while TPs send usual updates to UMD for verification/ integration, the preview repo goal is to make products available to the community before UMD verification/integration (no QA, just “UMD” community repository)
- Release monthly, together with provider information (release info, bug fixes, new features...)
Middleware releases and staged rollout
UMD release
- UMD 3.14.1 released right before Christmas
- DPM 1.8.10, FTS3 3.3.1, MyProxy 6.1.15, GridFTP 9.1.0, XROOTD 4.2.3, globus-default-security 6.2.0, ARC 15.03.4
- Please find all the details under http://repository.egi.eu/2015/12/18/release-umd-3-14-1
- UMD 4.0.0
- RC / integration test: FTS3, ARC, Site/Top BDII, dCache
- to be released soon
- CentOS7 only, SL6 support will be introduced on early 2016 while decommissioning SL5
Staged rollout updates
Under Staged Rollout
N/A
In Verification
- voms-admin-server 3.4.0
Ready to be released
UMD 3/UMD 4 EA
- we need Early Adopters for CentOS7!
Next releases
Operational issues
Decommissioning dCache 2.6
- support for dCache 2.6 ended at May 2015
- we made an assessment to understand how many sites still expose dCache 2.6 endpoints.
- decommission the dCache 2.6 endpoints by the end of January 2016 (or before) https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118248
- ref: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC16
- at next meeting we expect to have 2.6 decommissioned from the EGI infrastructure
Decommissioning SL5
- SL5 support aligned with RHEL5
- no more "Full support”; end of "Transition" Phase on January 31, 2014 • not getting anymore new software functionalities
- in "Maintenance" until March 31, 2017 • only urgent/critical fixes until then
- Supporting CentOS7 in UMD requires to schedule the end of support of SL5 in UMD
- No more new packages for SL5, only security/important fixes accepted
- SL5 services must be decommissioned by end of April 2016; broadcast at December, probes will be warning since February 2016 to start helping with decommissioning
AOB
Distributing middleware as Docker images
- releasing UMD4 products as Docker images in addition to RPMs
- pros: can run on hardware, no virtualization platform needed
- cons: maybe hard to create/maintain
- to be provided by TPs and/or volunteer sites
- possible profiles: site/top BDII, CEs