[heroes] Status: General/Other
Hi
TL;DR:
- added documentation for Image testing
- prepared some additional machines in Nuremberg
- tuned some QEMU settings
- status.opensuse.org shows some metrics now
Long version:
If you want to start testing our openSUSE infrastructure at home (or on
your Laptop), there is now a documentation in the admin wiki[1], that
describes how you can do this via KVM/QEMU (and the graphical
virt-manager) and our own JeOS image, which is build in
openSUSE:infrastructure:Images:openSUSE_Leap_15.1 jeos - feel free to
enhance the documentation or ask questions.
I created the following machines in the Nuremberg infrastructure:
1) riesling3.infra.opensuse.org for wiki testing on Leap 15.1
2) os-rt.infra.opensuse.org, to host a [Request
Tracker](https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker) installation.
3) nue-ns1.infra.opensuse.org as dedicated (external) DNS server in
Nuremberg
None of the 3 machines above is in production, yet. But they are "base
installed" and should be reachable via Salt.
Every time I was rebooting a machine (while installing kernel updates
or upgrading the OS), I also checked the QEMU settings and upgraded
them to the latest version, added the host-cpu passthrough option and
the QEMU-guest agent. This might give some machines some performance
boost (as for example the sse* CPU flags can now be used) as well as
some additional features for the admins of the virtualization servers.
I did not enable the qemu-guest agent on the virtual machines (yet),
but as I think this is something very useful, will do this later.
Ah, and if you wonder about the additional metrics at
https://status.opensuse.org/ - this is something I did as well. What
you need for this:
1) define a metric in status.opensuse.org
2) get your personal API Token
3) think about something like:
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)
VALUE=
participants (1)
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Lars Vogdt