Rucio Meeting

Thursday 7 Jul 2022, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

4/S-030 (CERN)

Martin Barisits (CERN)

1 News

• July release schedule
  • 1.29.0
    • RC2 in Production in ATLAS since today
      • Looks good
    • Final tomorrow
      • Will lift code-freeze then
  • 1.29.1
    • July 25
  • 1.26.14 (LTS)
    • July 25
  • 1.23.20 (LTS)
    • Empty release
    • July 4
    • Probably last 1.23 release
• Bi-weekly summer schedule
  • Next week no meeting!
• Documentation hackathon
• Next meetings
  • July 21 - Rucio 1.29 release retrospective
  • August 04 - Rucio 1.30 "The Donkeynator" release planning

2 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • Quiet week - nothing happened :-)
• CMS
  • _"_
• Fermilab/DUNE/Rubin/...
  • Upgrading deployments to newer versions
  • Rubin testing throughput with FTS3
    • Testing Rucio transfers between SLAC and IN2P3
      • 3rd party pull usually fails in first attempt, 2nd attempt with push then succeeds
        • Mario: Seen this before, but only on tape destination
        • Petr: FTS configuration and FTS error would be helpful
• DUNE
  • Data challenge next week
• Belle II
• ESCAPE/EOSC-Future
  • Transfer speed
    • Queuing can happen within FTS3
    • Could also be that Rucio is not "polling" fast enough
      • Can be Rucio config
      • Message consumption from FTS (rucio conveyor-receiver) would help
    • First identifying where the bottleneck is would be useful (FTS vs Rucio)
  • Token integration for SKAO

3 Hot topics

4 Developers roundtable

• Rucio 1.29 "Into the donkeyverse" progress tracking
  • 16 DONE / 22 DELAYED
  • Very motivated and courageous release plan
  • Got lots of things done, but also had to delay many issues
  • Need to better question how realistc our plans are
    • Have checkpoints during the development to question how realistic our plan still is
• Other topics
  • WebUI
    • Story books setup for unified design for the different pages
    • Integrating the authentication workflows
      • OIDC, UserPass, X509
      • MultiVO support from the beginning
    • https://rucio.cern.ch/webui
  • Tokens
    • Need to decide how certain workflows work in ATLAS
    • Policy decision can impact design
      • Should be discussed very soon
  • Py3.6 deprecation
    • Probably still need to keep it for quite a while

5 AOB