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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:

  • Cardano-node 8.9.2 is now deployed to mainnet, preprod, preview and shelley-qa environments.

  • Cardano-node 8.10.1-pre is now deployed to sanchonet and also to one-third of IOGs preprod environment nodes and two-thirds of IOGs preview environment nodes.

  • Private chain for Voltaire team was paused with plans for a future respin.

  • The network team's ouroboros-network-ops machine cluster was re-written using the cardano-parts stack to upgrade from the nixops/terraform/niv stack it was previously using.

Lower level summary

Cardano-parts

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.9.2, dbsync-ng to sancho-4.2.0; mithril to 2412.0, iohk-nix to include new peerSharing defaults and introduce a new block producer config. Adds a new truncate-chain recipe and improves mithril related services. More detail is available in the PR description: cardano-parts-pull-38

  • Sets cardano-node pre (-ng) to 8.10.1, dbsync to 13.2.0.2; mithril pre (-ng) to unstable, iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng pin includes new Cardano Foundation bootstrap relays. Adds new aws machine management and other recipes, metadata job support for pool creation, misc fixes and improvements. More detail is available in the PR description: cardano-parts-pull-39

Cardano-mainnet

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.9.2, mithril to 2412.0, iohk-nix to include new peerSharing defaults and colmena.nix cluster refactor for peerSharing adjustments and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#38. See the PR description for more details: cardano-mainnet-pull-12

  • Sets dbsync to 13.2.0.2, iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng to include new CF relays, adds new aws machine management recipes and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#39. See the PR description for more details: cardano-mainnet-pull-13

Cardano-node

  • Default peerSharing true and add block producer config to release binaries. See the PR description for more details: cardano-node-pull-5789

Cardano-ops

Cardano-perf

  • Adds a caddy webserver for run reviews and tunes the NVME FS mounts for performance: cardano-perf-compare

Cardano-playground

  • Sets cardano-node to 8.9.2, mithril to 2412.0, iohk-nix to include new peerSharing defaults, refactors mdbook out of docs dir, adds example chain manipulation doc and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#38. See the PR description for more details: cardano-playground-pull-21

  • Sets cardano-node pre (-ng) to 8.10.1, dbsync to 13.2.0.2, mithril pre (-ng) to unstable, iohk-nix and iohk-nix-ng to include new CF relays, adds a public TLS dbsync user connection option, stops private chain cluster and implements all updates in cardano-parts PR#39. See the PR description for more details: cardano-playground-pull-22

Iohk-nix

Ouroboros-network-ops

Sanchonet

Sanchonet-demo