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SRE Team Update

· 3 min read
John Lotoski

High level summary​

The SRE team continues work on cardano environment improvements and general environment maintenance.

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • Sanchonet environment was updated to 8.5.0-pre.
  • Cardano-parts now supports cardano-db-sync, cardano-smash, cardano-faucet and grafana cloud monitoring

Lower level summary​

Capkgs​

  • Various improvements and fixes including:
    • Add GHA cron schedule
    • Add nix auto-gc to avoid running out of storage during large package set builds
    • Add new packages to capkgs
    • Reduce runner storage requirement leaving more room for builds
    • Restructure capkgs attribute names to avoid package name collisions
    • Return to non-musl builds for cardano packages to retain journald compatability
    • Update cache usage to from file level to folder level to reduce network and latency overhead
    • Commit diff: capkgs-compare

Cardano-parts​

  • Updates cardano-node-ng to 8.5.0-pre and adds a Conway era automation job: cardano-parts-pull-16
  • Dbsync, smash, faucet and more: cardano-parts-pull-15
    • Adds cardano-db-sync, cardano-faucet, cardano-postgres, cardano-smash, profiles and/or services and related changes
    • Adds nginx vhost metrics exporter profile
    • Adds smash registered-relay-dump service and exporter for use until legacy relay nodes are scaled down
    • Adds bash *-ng autocompletion compatible wrappers
    • Adds a list-machines just recipe using nushell dataframe outer joins and scj ssh_config parser for fast cluster evals of machine state overview
    • Adds downstream grafana cloud dashboard as templates
    • Adds downstream grafana cloud alerts as templates
    • Updates grafana-agent profile with new exporter scrape hooks: cardano-db-sync, cardano-faucet, nginx-vts, varnish
    • Updates the basic profile with IOG cache and commonly used bins
    • Updates the pre-release profile to support cardano-db-sync, cardano-faucet, cardano-smash *-ng versioning
    • Updates flakeModule jobs with new conway era automation and additional IO encryption shimming and file type checks
    • Updates .sops.yaml template for supporting faucet secrets, workbench secrets, state-demo secrets
    • Updates the Justfile template with terraform fixes for workspace switching and provider auto-reconfiguration
    • Updates the cloudFormation terraformState template with stack modifications to preserve all resources in case of deletion
    • Updates the colmena template with dbsync, smash, faucet machines profiles and roles
    • Improves prior cardano-postgres modules to now automatically tune pg parameters based on machine cpuCount, memMiB and desired conns
    • Bumps capkgs node-ng to 8.5.0-pre

Cardano-playground​

  • Dbsync, smash, faucet and more: cardano-playground-pull-3
    • Adds a list-machines just recipe using nushell dataframe outer joins and scj ssh_config parser for fast cluster evals of machine state overview
    • Adds dbsync, smash, faucet machines and corresponding metrics exporters, dashboards and alerts
    • Moves the flake.cardano-parts.cluster.group attrSet name to groups to accurately reflect the plurality and the upstream corresponding change
    • Optimizes machine sizes
    • Updates .sops.yaml for supporting faucet secrets, workbench secrets, state-demo secrets
    • Updates the cloudFormation terraformState file with stack modifications to preserve all resources in case of deletion
    • Updates the cluster isNg definition to support cardano-db-sync, cardano-faucet, cardano-smash *-ng versioning
    • Updates the Justfile with terraform fixes for workspace switching and provider auto-reconfiguration

Cardano-world​

Sanchonet-demo​

  • Update for cardano-node 8.5.0, conway job recipes and cardano-parts interface changes: sanchonet-demo-commit