Agenda-08-02-2016
General information
- the Operations meeting will be on the 2nd Monday of the month
- the EGI Operations Meeting schedule for first half of 2016 is available on Indico: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=32 and on the new summary page: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations_Meeting
News from URT
Middleware releases and staged rollout
UMD release
Staged rollout updates
Under Staged Rollout
In Verification
Ready to be released
UMD 3/UMD 4 EA
Next releases
Operational issues
Decommissioning dCache 2.6
Decommissioning SL5
- SL5 support aligned with RHEL5
- no more "Full support”; end of "Transition" Phase on January 31, 2014 • not getting anymore new software functionalities
- in "Maintenance" until March 31, 2017 • only urgent/critical fixes until then
- Supporting CentOS7 in UMD requires to schedule the end of support of SL5 in UMD
- No more new packages for SL5, only security/important fixes accepted
- SL5 services must be decommissioned by end of April 2016; broadcast at December, probes will be warning since February 2016 to start helping with decommissioning
AOB
Distributing middleware as Docker images
- releasing UMD4 products as Docker images in addition to RPMs
- pros: can run on hardware, no virtualization platform needed
- cons: maybe hard to create/maintain
- to be provided by TPs and/or volunteer sites
- possible profiles: site/top BDII, CEs