Rucio Meeting

Thursday 15 Dec 2022, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• January meeting schedule
  • Jan-5 No meeting!
  • Jan-12 1.31 roadmap planning
  • Jan-19 1.30 retrospective
  • Jan-26 Possibly canceled due to ATLAS software week
• 1.30 release
  • Stable
  • 1.30.1 just released
• Plan was to do 1.30 retrospective today, but due to change of mural.com I have to delay it
• Thank you for all the hard work you have done in 2022!

15:05 → 15:20 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • 1.30 running stable in production
• CMS
• Fermilab/DUNE/RUBIN/,..
  • Moving Rucio deployment to OKD
    • Automatix stops authenticating after a few hours
      • GH Issue #5986
  • RUBIN
    • Define testdata to move around
• Belle II
• ESCAPE
  • ESCAPE instance good, running well
  • Re-deploy Rucio instance
    • Secrets not being recognized well
      • Should be injected in the container, but it doesn't work
      • Radu has a solution which needs to be tried
    • Database secret
      • DBonDemand @ CERN
      • Empty Rucio database inside
      • Followup in Chat

15:20 → 15:25 Hot topics

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Linux distribution for Rucio offical containers
  • Centos Stream no longer the supported choice
    • AlmaLinux instead
  • Using official supported distribution has some advantages for gridtools 
    • gfal2, mod_gridsite, etc.
• Python 3.6 deprecation

15:55 → 16:00 AOB

• Happy holidays! 
• See you in 2023!