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09/21/2019

AB 08:31 PM Task #7129: Turn the netbox installation into a production setup
It is working nicely on alpine linux.
I couldn't be able to make __ungleich_postgresql work on alpine correctly specifically there was some cron error.
@nico Backup thing is left and I need little bit guidance about it. LDAP is a...
Ahmed Bilal

09/20/2019

NS 08:10 PM Task #7163 (Closed): Setup wireguard endpoints in place5
* So that we can have ipv6 connectivity via any place
* Test how wireguard (client side) behaves with multiple wg devices up
** how is traffic shaped?
** which route is preferred?
** how does it behave if one peer is down
Nico Schottelius
NS 07:15 PM Task #7156: Add new sunrise link to infrastrucure, introduce policy routing
Saving config, updating with new bgp type Nico Schottelius
NS 07:03 PM Task #7156: Add new sunrise link to infrastrucure, introduce policy routing
Nico Schottelius
NS 07:00 PM Task #7156: Add new sunrise link to infrastrucure, introduce policy routing
Configuring network on router2.place5: Nico Schottelius
NS 01:59 PM Task #7160: Phase in 2 new routers to avoid softirqd problem
Setting up networking on replacement router1: Nico Schottelius
NS 12:44 AM Task #7160 (Closed): Phase in 2 new routers to avoid softirqd problem
* check/verify cdist config
* Maybe switch to jool
h2. Manual changes
Nico Schottelius
NS 10:10 AM Task #7162 (Closed): Submit a patch for the alpine bird2 package to run as user bird
* Currently bird runs as root unecessarily in alpine.
* Ensure a user bird (+group?) exists
* Ensure /etc/bird.conf is readable by the user bird
Nico Schottelius
NS 10:04 AM Task #7125: Implement "ordering" and "products" with ucloud
If terminating X, because Y is terminated, we should add some kind of
flag for having the user verify.
This can be a client or server based check
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
MR 06:45 AM Task #7138: Nico's open / next points for ucloud
ucloud-pay: Added the functionality to handle one time payment in version 0.5.2 https://code.ungleich.ch/ucloud/ucloud-pay/-/tags/0.5.2 Mondi Ravi
NS 12:45 AM Task #7161 (Rejected): Create APKBUILD for jool, submit jool to alpine
* dkms based Nico Schottelius

09/19/2019

AB 09:54 PM Task #7129: Turn the netbox installation into a production setup
cdist type done. Testing underway. Hopefully, create a PR tomorrow. Ahmed Bilal
NS 07:57 AM Task #7129: Turn the netbox installation into a production setup
Looking forward to see your next cdist type, go ahead Ahmed!
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
MR 06:51 PM Task #7125 (Feedback): Implement "ordering" and "products" with ucloud
Mondi Ravi
MR 06:47 PM Task #7125: Implement "ordering" and "products" with ucloud
Made a release 0.5.2 https://code.ungleich.ch/ucloud/ucloud-pay/-/tags/0.5.2 that includes handling one-time payment products.
This makes the scope of this ticket almost done.
Only things that I see that would need to be implement...
Mondi Ravi
MR 02:14 PM Task #7138: Nico's open / next points for ucloud
I made a version 0.5.1 of ucloud-pay (https://code.ungleich.ch/ucloud/ucloud-pay) and deployed/tested it on ucloud-pay-dev.ungleich.ch and I think we are good to head over to the step where you should be able to "rock".
ucloud-pay: ht...
Mondi Ravi
AB 01:31 PM Task #7122 (Seen): Setup production etcd cluster in place6
Ahmed Bilal
AB 08:43 AM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
Please ping me when backup5 is usable again. Thanks Ahmed Bilal
NS 08:12 AM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
You can put the ticket to waiting OR assign it to llnu with status
"Feedback" that you need feedback when backup is usuable again
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius

09/18/2019

AB 08:46 PM Task #7129: Turn the netbox installation into a production setup
All instructions/commands are noted to install netbox on alpine. Just need to put it in cdist type. Ahmed Bilal
NS 08:36 AM Task #7156: Add new sunrise link to infrastrucure, introduce policy routing
* 2019-09-18, ca. 1530 KST: enabled 0.0.0.0/3 to go through router2.place6 with full routing table
* 2019-09-18, ca. 1600 KST: enabled 32.0.0.0/3 to go through router2.place6 with full routing table
Nico Schottelius
NS 07:13 AM Task #7156: Add new sunrise link to infrastrucure, introduce policy routing
* router2.place6 takes care of 100% of outgoing IPv6 traffic
* Phasing in IPv4 routing by preferring parts of the Internet step by step (see below)
** We split the IPv4 Internet into 8 parts and change 1/8 of the traffic each time to g...
Nico Schottelius
NS 07:11 AM Task #7156 (Closed): Add new sunrise link to infrastrucure, introduce policy routing
* We get a new uplink from Sunrise
** configure interfaces / peering
* We need to add the full routing table now
** We don't receive a default route anymore
** Adding full routing table caused router1.place6 to go to 100% cpu usage o...
Nico Schottelius

09/17/2019

AB 09:18 PM Task #7083: Survey Django App Installation and Test
Can't backup to place5 as it is full. Ahmed Bilal
NS 12:05 PM Task #7153 (Rejected): Experiment with full routing tables
* We want to be able to fine granular shape traffic
* Our Upstream ISPs will be switched from submitting default route to us to full routing table
* Last time I checked, full routing table in kernel = 100% cpu load
Let's try to do i...
Nico Schottelius
AB 11:37 AM Task #7118: Test ucloud
Integration test is done for most of the tasks. Migration testing is still remaining. Ahmed Bilal

09/16/2019

LN 06:24 PM Task #7120 (Closed): Distribute disks on hosts equally -ceph
not neccessary now ll nu
NS 05:04 PM Task #7139: Approach Azure, AWS, Softwayer, OpenStack and Cloudstack users and ask them about their opinion
Softlayer, by IBM, sorry for the typo
redmine@ungleich.ch writes:
Nico Schottelius
AB 04:30 PM Task #7139: Approach Azure, AWS, Softwayer, OpenStack and Cloudstack users and ask them about their opinion
I couldn't find Softwayer Ahmed Bilal
AB 02:47 PM Task #7112: Userguide for ucloud
> As a user, would I need to specify UCLOUD_API_SERVER ? If yes, I think its missing
> ...
It is already implemented (name, realm and seed is added now)
Ahmed Bilal
MR 02:00 PM Task #7112 (New): Userguide for ucloud
Looks good to me for a first version.
Some points I don't understand/did not find/improvements in the doc are:
- As a user, would I need to specify UCLOUD_API_SERVER ? If yes, I think its missing
- I think we already discussed thi...
Mondi Ravi
MR 01:44 PM Task #7112 (In Progress): Userguide for ucloud
Oops, I seem to have missed this. Doing it right now. Mondi Ravi

09/15/2019

MR 06:50 AM Task #7147 (Resolved): Add explanatory text to indicate "puffy" username on OpenBSD 6.5 VMs
This was done in 2.6.4 and deployed to production today. Mondi Ravi
MR 05:24 AM Task #7147 (In Progress): Add explanatory text to indicate "puffy" username on OpenBSD 6.5 VMs
Mondi Ravi

09/14/2019

MR 03:33 PM Task #7147: Add explanatory text to indicate "puffy" username on OpenBSD 6.5 VMs
Du kannst Dich auf Deiner VM mit dem user *puffy* einloggen. Mondi Ravi
MR 03:30 PM Task #7147: Add explanatory text to indicate "puffy" username on OpenBSD 6.5 VMs
Mondi Ravi wrote:
> Sanghee suggests to add the following text at the end of the email in the screenshot.
> ...
https://chat.ungleich.ch/ungleich/pl/85yp13arbbbq5gofcg6ggyeyyy
Mondi Ravi
MR 03:30 PM Task #7147 (Closed): Add explanatory text to indicate "puffy" username on OpenBSD 6.5 VMs

Sanghee suggests to add the following text at the end of the email in the screenshot.
EN: You can log in to your VM by the username *puffy* .
DE:
Mondi Ravi

09/13/2019

AB 07:23 AM Task #7138: Nico's open / next points for ucloud
https://redmine.ungleich.ch/issues/7138#Ordering-a-VM-by-CLI
This is implemented but in a different way. Currently, user have to put his OTP credentials in ~/.bashrc. Like
Ahmed Bilal
AB 07:13 AM Task #7138: Nico's open / next points for ucloud
https://redmine.ungleich.ch/issues/7138#CLI-web
Yes, our expertise is in Python. I don't have much experience working with Javascript. I think using Python to create website would be a better idea.
Ahmed Bilal

09/12/2019

NS 06:30 PM Task #7139: Approach Azure, AWS, Softwayer, OpenStack and Cloudstack users and ask them about their opinion
+watcher Nico Schottelius
NS 06:29 PM Task #7139 (Closed): Approach Azure, AWS, Softwayer, OpenStack and Cloudstack users and ask them about their opinion
After we have reviewed and ok'ed the first user manual version, checkout the chat/forum etc. of openstack and cloudstack users and ask them about their opinion about ucloud, what they like and what they dislike Nico Schottelius
NS 05:49 PM Task #7138 (Rejected): Nico's open / next points for ucloud
This ticket is about tracking how/where we should continue to develop or things that come to my mind. Anyone who is a watcher here, feel free to update it when things are implemented that I think should be implemented.
Many things mig...
Nico Schottelius
TF 07:59 AM Task #7136 (Rejected): Create Git submodules
-Create Git submodules for each of the cdist types
-Move Ungleich specific information out of the types to files/
Tiffany Fust
MR 07:12 AM Task #7135 (Rejected): Monitor nginx status codes in prometheus
Something like https://www.martin-helmich.de/en/blog/monitoring-nginx.html but not limited to. Mondi Ravi

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
 

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