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SRE Q4 2023 Update

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John Lotoski
John Lotoski
Service Reliability Engineer

2023-10 - 2023-12​

Main achievements​

In addition to ongoing general maintenance and support of cardano environments, main SRE achievements for this quarter include:

  • Cardano-parts support was added for cardano-db-sync, cardano-smash, cardano-faucet, cardano-metadata, grafana monitoring along with a number of other features

  • Completed migration of testnets from cardano-world to the cardano-playground cluster

  • Completed migration of the cardano book from cardano-world to the cardano-playground cluster

  • Completed migration of pools from cardano-ops to the cardano-mainnet cluster

  • Creation of a mainnet p2p bootstrap cluster

  • Cardano sanchonet environment respins during the quarter for testing new cardano-node pre-release Conway era functionality

  • All environments were upgraded to cardano-node 8.7.2 or 8.7.3 by the end of the quarter

  • Completion of a govtool backend deployment for Voltaire chain testing

  • Creation of a cardano-monitoring repository, cardano-monitoring:

    • A new repository enabling agile deployment of EC2 monitoring servers, compatible with OpenTofu grafana and mimir providers

Next steps​

  • Scale down the mainnet non-p2p legacy cluster

  • Add deployment support for new network services, such as Mithril

  • Continue cardano-parts and operations improvements