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TL;DR - I can’t get AnsibleContainer to build a FutureGateway stack. Maybe documenting my descent into insanity will help me get out of it. Every now and again, has the feeling of just being stuck. There seems to be no trodden path leading to the point in which one finds oneself, no direction in or out - one has the distinct impression of waking up from something like a dream and realising that one has no idea how one arrived. “Was I drunk ? “, “Was there some kind of party ? “, “Who won ? “… although futile, one...…

I’ve hit a problem with the FutureGateway stack deployment code. The goal is to write the deployment in such a way as to make it deployable on a cloud-native platform, following 12-factor. I’m using AnsibleContainer to do this. The container.yml looks like this : version: "2"settings: # We choose Jessie as the Conductor base since that's what the mysqldb is using. conductor_base: debian:jessieservices: apiserver: from: centos:7 roles: - AAROC.fgapi ports: - 8888:8888 command: ['/bin/true'] privileged: True db: from: mysql roles: - AAROC.fg-db ports: - 3306:3306 environment: - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD= - MYSQL_USER= - MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD= command: ['mysqld'] entrypoint: ['/entrypoint.sh'] volumes: - $PWD:/var/lib/mysql privileged:...…

The Virtual Organisation Membership Service is a service providing authorisation to use grid and cloud services. The VOMS releases signed proxies of users’ personal certificates which can be used by the middleware stacks to authenticate to the various middelware services. An error was detected on the VOMS server hosting the sagrid, sagrid.ac.za and stell.bio VOs. Connections to the voms-admin and voms service were failing, and the web interface was also down. Upon investigation, it was found that there was a conflict between the old version if java installed (Java-1.6.0) and the Jetty environment needed by the VOMS applications. We keep...…

TL;DR We’re going to throw you in the DevOps deep end. DevOps Bootcamp at the CSIR Meraka Institute, Pretoria - Venue, Agenda and other details Just click on “Apply to Participate” Complete the questionnaire before coming. Time to build some more awesome At the Cyberinfrastructure Unit of the CSIR, we’re in the infrastructure game. We build high-performance networking, compute and data infrastructure for research communities. However, that infrastructure is quite meaningless unless it is efficiently used, and this is done by exploiting the infrastructure through the services that it offers. Some of these services are built directly by our engineers,...…