Operations/Minutes/2024-04-18

OpenStreetMap Foundation, Operations Meeting - Draft minutes

These minutes do not go through a formal acceptance process.
This is not strictly an Operations Working Group (OWG) meeting.

Thursday 18 April, 19:00 London time
Location: Video room at https://osmvideo.cloud68.co

Participants

Absent

Grant Slater to post the notice for the upcoming Equinix Amsterdam Power Maintenance / HE.net maintenance. [Topic: Upcoming Equinix Amsterdam power maintenance / HE.net maintenance]
Grant Slater to reply to Equinix, to accept their offer. [Topic: Equinix]

On suggestion to switch sites

Rejected, as it might be too risky and a hard fail in Postgres.
There are some remaining barriers for easily switching, including how to easily move the diff generation.
Currently there is no simple way to migrate the primary DB server. It is a painful process, documented on the OPS wiki.

Other points mentioned during discussion

Concern on the breaker flipping on the other power feed (32 amps on the breaker, we're using 12).
We aren't going to have the inrush from hard drive spin up since they're not going to be spinning up, or from the capacitors, because they're already connected.
- One of our power supplies on HP machine runs at 5 watts, but caps are fully charged.
If the break is due to us, it might take them longer to fix it.
Grant happy to do a test.

Action item: Grant Slater to post the maintenance outage notice.

We have to proceed assuming we won't get sponsorship by Equinix.
We asked them for a discounted price on power and they are giving us an extra kilowatt for a slightly lower price.
We do not have many options available.
We have contacted the Equinix foundation and if we provide some details that they asked for, they might have a look at them.

Suggestion: Send to the Equinix Foundation the details they asked for.

Action item: Grant to reply to Equinix, to accept their offer.

Paul to look at deployment for Vector Tiles relatively soon, as parallelism tasks are turning out to be quite easy. Also plans to revisit earlier work at a later point, as fixes will be easier to do.
Paul would like to do it with Docker. DB to be run out of the container.
- As Podman adds networking latency, it might not be preferable.
Grant happy to help with containers.

Suggestions on getting the Chef tests running:

Write a test and execute it using chef.
Follow documentation for running chef tests, including installing Docker and Ruby.
Use existing code as a template if needed.
Set up a container for tests. This container functions like a virtual machine, allowing effective interaction.

~~2024-03-21 Paul to document in the ticket https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/518 that we will go with Znuny [Topic: OTRS]~~
2024-03-21 Grant to reply to Equinix, restating the issue in a brief form to them. [Topic: Equinix]
2024-03-07 Grant to open tickets about not forwarding incoming spammy tickets to other email servers, where they get bounced [Topic: email notifications getting marked as spam]
2024-03-07 Grant and Guillaume to open a github issue about the redundancy of gateway / IPv6 "private subnet". Benefit / "Cost" [Topic: Redundancy of Gateway / IPv6 "private subnet"]
2024-02-08 OWG to review the Editor policy during one of the next calls and possibly vote on it. [Editor Policy adding to OpenStreetMap.org]
2023-11-30 Grant to revisit the "policy for purchasing" document, which currently is focused on specs, and add information such as the process for obtaining approval for purchases. [Reportage] Added info: Who Approves / Steps etc -> Grant to create GitHub ticket
2023-11-30 OPS to review the issue of spam reports to ISPs in 6 months (May 2024) -> Grant to create GitHub ticket
2023-05-18 Paul to start an open document listing goals for longer-term planning. [Topic: Longer-term planning]

Action items that have been stricken-through are either completed, or have been moved to GitHub tickets.