Rucio Meeting

Thursday 29 Aug 2024, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• September meeting schedule
  • Back to weekly schedule!
  • Sept 5 CANCELLED
  • Sep 12
  • Sep 19
  • Sep 26
• Release schedule
  • Next release in the 35 line in two weeks.

15:05 → 15:25 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • Conducting a file-specific destination token test:
    • Pre-release deployed on the ATLAS FTS instance.
    • Two-week lifetime, no refresh.
    • Revealed non-compliance with the WLCG profile at three sites.
    • Token request rate averaging between 1 and 2 Hz.
    • Concern about IAM storing every active access token in the database.
• ESCAPE
  • Upgrade from 1.30 to 34.6.0.
    • Mostly fine.
    • Some issues with OIDC authentication.
• DaFab consortium
  • Investigating optimal way to store metadata.
  • Issue with IPv6 addresses and the databases (see Mattermost #developers).
    
    • To submit an issue on GitHub.
• ALTO
• DUNE
• CERN IT

15:25 → 15:45 Improving the Rucio CLI experience with Rich

Speaker: Mr Eric Pauli Petteri Banzuzi (CERN)

rucio rich cli 29-08-24.pdf

rucio rich cli 29-08-24.pptx

15:45 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• 36 "Donkey Unchained" roadmap
  • Todo
    • factorize duplicate messaging code into a common module or class #6423 [Alex]
    • Allow for token providers other than IAM #6630 [Dimitrios]
    • Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios]
    • Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
    • Make WebDAV protocols on par with GFAL #6633 [Dimitrios]
    • Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512 [Hugo]
    • Re-write and standardization of client command structure #6639 [Maggie]
    • Improve docstrings #6628 [Riccardo]
    • Refactor all ATLAS-related code into ATLAS policy package #7027 [Riccardo]
    • Evaluate archive workflows for rules (Using an archive as a source) #6643 [Riccardo]
    • Better define unit tests and integ tests #7007 [Riccardo]
    • Improve test coverage #7008 [Riccardo]
    • WebUI Tracker 36 #??? [???]
  • In Progress
    • Make new token support Multi-VO compatible #6406 [Dimitrios]
    • Review operations where SSL verification is disabled #6632 [Dimitrios]
    • Retire RSE limits #6629 [Erling, Dimitrios]
    • Prepare replacement of current policy import with policy packages #4798 [James, Martin]
  • In Review
    • Allow permissions to optionally return a message #6580 [James]
      • PR #7001 approved.
  • Done
  • Delayed
• Documentation corner
  • Document activities used by rucio-daemons #326 [???]
  • Generate "Configuration parameters" documentation page automatically, to avoid mismatches between documentation and code #325 [???]
  • Error when trying to upload file with custom name containing slashes #336 [???]
  • Make a table for all daemon and its functionality #296 [Hugo]
  • Documentation (developer): Add guidelines for testing API-related changes #322 [???]
  • Documentation for RSE settings #293 [???]
  • Document how deletion occurs. #288 [Anil]
  • Introduce documentation on subscriptions #190 [Cedric]
  • bridge the gap between running rucio in demo env and full production deployment #187 [Hugo, Giovanni]
    • PR #349 approved but not yet merged.
  • Add instruction about DB partitioning #185 [Martin]
  • Add an FAQ-style entry aimed at users for STUCK rules #184 [Fabio]
  • Document environmental variables affecting the client #171 [Dimitrios]
    • PR #366 approved but not yet merged.
  • Changing auth_type should invalidate current Rucio authn token #321 [???]
• Other topics

15:55 → 16:00 AOB