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From 08/13/2019 to 09/11/2019

09/11/2019

LN 10:33 PM Task #7108 (In Progress): Document / update ceph documentation to bootstrap from zero
in progress here https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/datacenterlight/wiki/Ceph_on_Alpine ll nu
NS 06:52 PM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
backup -> backing up essential data to our backup VM
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
AB 09:42 AM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
What do you mean by backup? Ahmed Bilal

09/10/2019

LN 06:34 PM Task #6652 (Closed): Install 2 Linux routers with Alpine Linux
duplicate of https://redmine.ungleich.ch/issues/6582 and partially https://redmine.ungleich.ch/issues/7026 ll nu
LN 06:26 PM Task #6709 (Closed): Configure IPv6 only netbooting
duplicate of
https://redmine.ungleich.ch/issues/7026
ll nu
LN 06:25 PM Task #6650 (Closed): Make Mikrotik a router for the fiber network, enable the server network (vlan), use vlan tagging on the mikrotik to be able to be a router
we are trying to phase copper out
will reopen if we fail with fiber booting
ll nu
LN 06:24 PM Task #6649 (Closed): Create new internal VLAN for place9 WITH a router and move servers to the internal VLAN
ll nu
NS 05:42 PM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
... not to mention: for production:
* setup with cdist
* letsencrypt
* backup
("the usual stuff")
Nico Schottelius
NS 05:26 PM Task #7129 (Closed): Turn the netbox installation into a production setup
* Create a new VM
* Configure it *only* using cdist
** No manual package installations/configs/etc.!
* Ensure that netbox is started automatically at boot
* Ensure that a DB dump is made once per 1h
** There is a cdist type / there ...
Nico Schottelius
NS 04:40 PM Task #7112: Userguide for ucloud
Can you proof read it && give Ahmed feedback? Nico Schottelius
MR 11:51 AM Task #7125 (In Progress): Implement "ordering" and "products" with ucloud
Mondi Ravi
MR 11:50 AM Task #7125 (Rejected): Implement "ordering" and "products" with ucloud

h2. Discussion: https://chat.ungleich.ch/ungleich/pl/o8y3tz8wo7ytje7o8nk9suw4qo
> @mravi @ahmedbilal ping
> ...
h2. Hand over criteria
This task is done, if:
* I can order a VM and it is billed via credit card
* I can or...
Mondi Ravi
NS 08:50 AM Task #7113 (Closed): ucloud without ceph

redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius

09/09/2019

NS 01:19 AM Task #7122 (Closed): Setup production etcd cluster in place6
* 3 nodes
* Ensure that sufficient permissions are used to secure access to etcd
* Include hourly backup to place5
** Check whether we need to make a dump or can backup the data directory directly
* Probably include letsencrypt (?) f...
Nico Schottelius

09/08/2019

LN 01:32 AM Task #7120 (Closed): Distribute disks on hosts equally -ceph
With ceph the more hosts the better. When a new host was added ceph started overusing it.
One article said that
ll nu

09/07/2019

AB 07:34 PM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
If I have to use it for myself, I would go with Jekyll. It is easy to setup and use, have a lot of plugins, stable and mature. It supports all the things we initially needed. We should give it a try first (on some development VM maybe). ... Ahmed Bilal

09/06/2019

NS 12:49 PM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
Hey Ahmed,
can you give a summary at the end and add your opinion about the various
tools?
Best,
Nico
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
AB 08:30 AM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
https://hexo.io/
* Easy to use
* Very Poor Default Theme
* Markdown (support special tags https://hexo.io/docs/tag-plugins. support plugins. I tested Sitemap plugins. https://hexo.io/plugins/index.html)
* Very Quick to Setup i.e ta...
Ahmed Bilal
AB 07:52 AM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
https://www.getlektor.com
* Easy to use for simpler cases
* Markdown (support plugins https://www.getlektor.com/plugins/. I tested Sitemap plugins)
* Take too much trouble to install (most probably its my machine only)
* Sitemap (t...
Ahmed Bilal
AB 06:35 AM Task #7119 (In Progress): Alternative Blog Software Research
Ahmed Bilal

09/05/2019

AB 08:10 PM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
https://jekyllrb.com
* Easy to use
* Markdown (support many plugins. I tested Youtube and Sitemap plugins. Both works great - https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins)
* Very Quick to Setup i.e takes very few amount of...
Ahmed Bilal
AB 07:44 PM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
https://blog.getpelican.com/ (Written in Python)
* Easy to use
* Markdown (support too many plugins although most of them are not very active on Github so, can't comment on their functionality https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-pl...
Ahmed Bilal
AB 07:07 PM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
https://gohugo.io/
* Easy to use
* Markdown (also support short-codes that enable to embed tweets/gist/vimeo/youtube/instagram/) https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/
* Very Quick to Setup i.e takes very few amount of tim...
Ahmed Bilal
AB 06:27 PM Task #7119: Alternative Blog Software Research
https://www.gatsbyjs.org
* Need knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS, React, and GraphQL
* Need to learn quite a few things.
* Probably, not a good choice.
* Matomo plugin available
Ahmed Bilal
AB 05:55 PM Task #7119 (Closed): Alternative Blog Software Research
It would be good to have some or all of the following things
* should have some theming / design support -> so that we can re-apply / introduce our ungleich style to the blog
* should be easy to use with git / probably markdown or simi...
Ahmed Bilal
AB 05:47 PM Task #7118 (Closed): Test ucloud
Create {Unit, Functional} Tests for all ucloud projects
Ahmed Bilal
NS 01:55 PM Task #7117 (Rejected): Make ungleich-otp better usable for the public
* Rename it to uotp
* Prepare an RFC for it
* Ensure we have a client side
** ... library (python)
** cli (uotp ...)
** configuration file: ~/.uotp
*** contains pairs of server URL + seed
*** instead of urls, it might also contain...
Nico Schottelius
AB 08:28 AM Task #7113 (Resolved): ucloud without ceph
Ahmed Bilal

09/04/2019

LN 03:44 PM Task #6681 (Closed): Create a distributed firewall PoC based on uncloud/nft
ll nu
AB 09:11 AM Task #7113 (In Progress): ucloud without ceph
Ahmed Bilal

09/03/2019

AB 07:34 PM Task #7112 (Feedback): Userguide for ucloud
Ahmed Bilal
AB 05:29 PM Task #7112: Userguide for ucloud
https://code.ungleich.ch/ucloud/ucloud-docs/blob/wip/Userguide.md Ahmed Bilal
AB 03:44 PM Task #7112 (Closed): Userguide for ucloud
"how to use ucloud"? from user's perspective.
With starting to install the CLI, getting a seed, etc?
Ahmed Bilal
NS 03:50 PM Task #7114 (Rejected): Test performance of tayga-mt
The multithreading version from Chris Rock Nico Schottelius
AB 03:46 PM Task #7113 (Closed): ucloud without ceph
Single node ucloud without ceph for easy test case. Ahmed Bilal

09/02/2019

AB 09:40 AM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
It can be found at http://survey.hack4glarus.ungleich.cloud/ Ahmed Bilal

09/01/2019

NS 11:05 PM Task #7108 (Rejected): Document / update ceph documentation to bootstrap from zero
Nico Schottelius

08/31/2019

AB 07:53 PM Task #6998 (Feedback): Install & Setup netbox on an IPv6 only VM and find out how to get / reserve the next free ip address
For credentials, see channel org-ahmedbilal
I created a prefix 2a0a:e5c1:144:1::/64 using netbox web interface. It can be seen at http://netbox-dev.ungleich.ch/ipam/prefixes/1/ then use netbox's official Python library pynetbox to get...
Ahmed Bilal

08/30/2019

AB 12:14 PM Task #6998: Install & Setup netbox on an IPv6 only VM and find out how to get / reserve the next free ip address
Nico Schottelius wrote:
> ping. please create a proof of concept for getting the next free ip address of a network via the API. Test it for IPv6 and IPv4. Document the commands used.
OK.
Ahmed Bilal
NS 12:10 PM Task #6998 (Seen): Install & Setup netbox on an IPv6 only VM and find out how to get / reserve the next free ip address
ping. please create a proof of concept for getting the next free ip address of a network via the API. Test it for IPv6 and IPv4. Document the commands used. Nico Schottelius
NS 12:09 PM Task #6877 (In Progress): Start the first VMs on place9 cluster using ucloud (ucloud v1)
checking this out now Nico Schottelius
NS 11:49 AM Task #7026: place9 hacking for getting ceph + netboot running
Note: we can/should remove the if clause, the first block is not needed Nico Schottelius
NS 11:04 AM Task #7026: place9 hacking for getting ceph + netboot running
ipxe related:
I'd even enable
* #define DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS
* #define REBOOT_CMD
* #define POWEROFF_CMD
* #define PING_CMD
and for usb boot:
@make bin/ipxe.usb@
@sudo dd if=bin/ipxe.usb of=/dev/sdb@
Setting up host con...
Nico Schottelius

08/28/2019

MR 07:16 PM Task #7032 (Closed): [dynamicweb] If a user inputs an existing key in the VM buy flow, he/she is alerted that the key exists and the user can't proceed
This was merged in 2.6.3 and deployed to production today. Mondi Ravi
LN 06:38 PM Task #7097 (Rejected): Recompile alpine-extended iso for usb booting
to add support for:
zfs, console boot
maybe ungleich specific stuff: staff ssh keys, else?
ll nu

08/27/2019

LN 08:23 PM Task #7026: place9 hacking for getting ceph + netboot running
///unfinished
git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git
cd ipxe/src/
vi config/general.h
should look like this:
#define NET_PROTO_IPV4 /* IPv4 protocol */
#define NET_PROTO_IPV6 /* IPv6 protocol */
#undef NET_PROT...
ll nu
MR 04:02 PM Task #7032: [dynamicweb] If a user inputs an existing key in the VM buy flow, he/she is alerted that the key exists and the user can't proceed
Sanghee and I faced a wierd issue yesterday, while trying out the test steps via hosting flow.
The second attempt (with a correct credit card) also failed.
However, when I tested it today; after clearing cache and logging myself ou...
Mondi Ravi
NS 12:00 PM Task #7010: Fix Alpine Linux installer to support serial && push it upstream
Can you add the upstream merge request url in here? Nico Schottelius
LN 11:40 AM Task #7010 (Waiting): Fix Alpine Linux installer to support serial && push it upstream
ll nu

08/26/2019

SK 02:28 PM Task #7088 (Closed): [dynamicweb] Dashboard does not include a link to reset the password
Duplicate with #7086 Sanghee Kim
MR 01:57 PM Task #7088 (Closed): [dynamicweb] Dashboard does not include a link to reset the password
Mondi Ravi
MR 01:59 PM Task #7089 (Rejected): [dynamicweb] Implement 2FA in dynamicweb with ungleich-otp
Here's Nico's idea to do it:
> I was wondering
> ...
Mondi Ravi
MR 01:57 PM Task #7087 (Rejected): [dynamicweb] Remove password in email and replace it with a link to set it via dashboard
We send user's password after a user who's never registered with us, creates a VM.
Sharing passwords via email is a bad practice. Sanghee;s proposed solution is to send a link to the user instead of the password, where he/she can set/...
Mondi Ravi
SK 01:18 PM Task #7032: [dynamicweb] If a user inputs an existing key in the VM buy flow, he/she is alerted that the key exists and the user can't proceed
I tested with the key I created and saved via generate key, and above flow works as expcted. Sanghee Kim
SK 01:11 PM Task #7032: [dynamicweb] If a user inputs an existing key in the VM buy flow, he/she is alerted that the key exists and the user can't proceed
While testing, the step 1 goes to 404 error page after card submit, is this as expected? I think the error should be handled differently. Sanghee Kim
MR 12:48 PM Task #7032 (Feedback): [dynamicweb] If a user inputs an existing key in the VM buy flow, he/she is alerted that the key exists and the user can't proceed
I proposed a fix for this issue in the merge request https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/dynamicweb/merge_requests/712
Basically, we had a check to not allow the user to input the same key again. I just removed this code.
The ...
Mondi Ravi
MR 12:00 PM Task #7032 (In Progress): [dynamicweb] If a user inputs an existing key in the VM buy flow, he/she is alerted that the key exists and the user can't proceed
Mondi Ravi
LN 12:57 PM Task #6978: control server ran out of inodes
mravi 05:05
we seem to have been running out of free inodes on control.ungleich.ch -- I've removed the cdist's cache folder fyi o
ll nu
LN 12:56 PM Task #6978 (Closed): control server ran out of inodes
ll nu
AB 12:27 PM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Corrected the project -> use Open Infrastructure whenever we don't have internal details that cannot be publicly shared
We have or we don't have?
OK.
Ahmed Bilal
NS 08:39 AM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
Corrected the project -> use Open Infrastructure whenever we don't have internal details that cannot be publicly shared Nico Schottelius
AB 08:12 AM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
Setup https://djangopackages.org/packages/p/django-survey-and-report/ as follows:
* Create a new ipv6 only VM
* Configure it using cdist (ping @kjg and @llnu if you need help)
* Configure our IPv6-IPv4 proxy to proxy IPv4 requests to it
Ahmed Bilal
AB 08:04 AM Task #7083 (Closed): Survey Django App Installation and Test
Distro: Debian or Devuan
h2. Tests
* Find out whether we can connect it easily to our ldap
** answer is "probably yes" - ping Mondi about it
* Find out how to manage the following flow:
** A person without an account on LDAP wan...
Ahmed Bilal
SK 12:11 PM Task #7086 (Rejected): [dynamicweb]Expose password reset option in the user dashboard
Make it visible under /settings. Sanghee Kim
AB 08:04 AM Task #7084 (Closed): Survey Django App Installation v2

Distro: Alpine
Ahmed Bilal

08/22/2019

NS 08:29 PM Task #6988 (Closed): Fix cdist configuration run on monitoring.place6
Nico Schottelius
NS 12:13 PM Task #6983: Setup networking for bluecmd/mainframe
Well done
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
LN 12:02 PM Task #6983 (Closed): Setup networking for bluecmd/mainframe
ll nu
NS 12:12 PM Task #7025 (Closed): Fix ifup bond0.22 ip: ioctl 0x8922 failed: Result not representable

Let's debug it when it comes again
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
LN 12:04 PM Task #7025 (Feedback): Fix ifup bond0.22 ip: ioctl 0x8922 failed: Result not representable
I cannot reproduce the issue. ll nu
LN 12:08 PM Task #6946 (Closed): Setup the other side of the arista switches
! Command: show running-config
! device: switch1-place9 (DCS-7050S-52, EOS-4.18.6M-2GB)
!
! boot system flash:/EOS-2GB-4.18.6M.swi
!
transceiver qsfp default-mode 4x10G
!
hostname switch1-place9
!
spanning-tree mode mstp
!
no ...
ll nu

08/16/2019

NS 10:46 AM Task #7053 (Rejected): Make nodejs/npm work on IPv6 only hosts
h2. Description
The following error occurs when trying to install a package:
Nico Schottelius

08/15/2019

NS 11:28 AM Task #7026: place9 hacking for getting ceph + netboot running
Please document it and transfer the knowledge of how to create the usb
sticks to Sami (i.e. document first, have Sami try it and use it)
Also port the dhcpv6 configuration into cdist
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
LN 10:49 AM Task #7026: place9 hacking for getting ceph + netboot running
update:
dhcpv6 netbooting with ipxe usb sticks is the current approach
ll nu

08/13/2019

NS 10:47 AM Task #7044 (Rejected): Document IPv6 only NAT64 enabled client network issues
* Mobile phone connecting back to tmobile -> not possible in the wifi network
** likely hardcoded ipv4 address
Nico Schottelius
 

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