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SRE Team Update

· 3 min read
John Lotoski
John Lotoski
Service Reliability Engineer

High level summary​

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

Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:

  • Cardano-world testnets of preprod, preview, sanchonet and some private test chains have largely completed their migration to the cardano-playground stack

Lower level summary​

Capkgs​

Cardano-parts​

  • General migration support PR for cardano-world to cardano-playground cardano-parts-pull-18
    • Iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng were updated support the migration of cardano-world networks to cardano-playground
    • Sops-secrets dependent systemd services were fixed to ensure restart upon sops secrets changes
    • Db chain utilities (db-{analyser,synthesizer,truncater}) had -ng variants created to operate on both release and pre-release network chains
    • The profile-cardano-postgres nixos module received preset variables and prepared statements via pgsqlrc for faster and easier analysis of network state
    • The flakeModule jobs now has support for the cardano-cli era command in each of the job scripts by passing the $ERA_CMD variable
    • Default cardano-node-ng package is now 8.6.0-pre, dbsync on sanchonet is now sancho-2-2-0
    • For scripts using a nix-shell shebang, the cardano-parts devShell menu can be disabled from injecting itself into stdout by passing NOMENU=true
    • Template updates include:
      • Adds optional TF AZ declaration on ec2 resources
      • Adds a cardano node p2p dashboard to the grafana cloud stack
      • Adds a dbsync pool performance analysis query
      • Updates python distribute and delegation scripts from world for playground compatibility
      • Starts a python script lib to reduce shared code among the python scripts
      • Several justfile improvements and new recipes
    • More detail is available in the PR description
  • Update submit action script for 8.6 cardano-parts-pull-19
  • Update scripts for 8.6.0-pre cardano-parts-pull-21
    • Fixes subcommand names based on ERA_CMD
    • Adds deposits to some commands
    • Separates CC cold/hot key generation as host authorization has to occur after action is approved
    • CC voting enabled in vote job

Cardano-playground​

  • Migration PR to largely complete the network migration from cardano-world to cardano-playground: cardano-playground-pull-5
    • Adds re-spun private chain network
    • Migrates shelley-qa chain network from world
    • Justfile improvements and new recipes
    • Improve concurrent environment chain support
    • More detail is available in the PR description

Iohk-nix​

  • Migration to play: iohk-nix-pull-561
    • Migrate cardano-lib networks from world.dev.cardano.org to play.dev.cardano.org
    • Remove deprecated cardano-lib p2p network environment
    • Update sanchonet chain with respin changes
    • Update private chain with respin changes
    • Bump private and shelley-qa chains to sanchonet equivalent conway genesis
    • Bump preview, preprod chains to sanchonet equivalent conway genesis for node 8.6.0-pre pre-release testing

Sanchonet-demo​