CVMFS Sync Meeting

Thursday 9 Jul 2026, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

31/2-028 (CERN)

Presents: Fabrizio, Valentin

11:00 → 11:10 Operational status & service overview

• Current CVMFS service health (repositories, stratum-0/1, monitoring)
• Any incidents since last meeting
• Short-term operational risks or alerts

Service health excellent

Slowly the new MONIT monitoring is entering prod

Signed all the whitelists yesterday... no problems for the holidays then

 

11:10 → 11:20 Issues & interventions follow-up

• Review of open issues
• Status of ongoing or planned interventions
• Decisions needed / actions agreed

Hugo proposed to take 

RQF3810397

11:20 → 11:30 Onboarding & knowledge transfer

• Onboarding progress for Hugo and Maria

• Open questions or unclear areas

• Documentation gaps or runbooks to improve

• Identify topics needing deeper walkthroughs (future sessions)

Maria is busy today

... where is Hugo?

11:30 → 11:40 Collaborator input – SFT / Valentin

• Updates from SFT side

• Cross-team dependencies or changes impacting CVMFS

• Technical discussions or requests for support

• Upcoming developments worth tracking

Q: is it reasonable to create a release manager with 100 repos?

Val: Does not make much sense

Fab: then how do we make all the RMs equal if they can't contain all the repos?

Val: we will probably have to wait more to find a tech solution to this

Val: if we can have a cloud of gateways that would already be a good start

Fab: I agree

Val: I have a prototype, plz give me a database

Fab: OK, I'll open a dbondemand instance for you, for a prototype we don't really need HA

https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/CVMFSOPS-407

Val: how can teigi be used from the software in order to fetch S3 keys on demand?

Fab: no idea, we can find out

11:40 → 11:45 Planning & priorities

• Short-term priorities until next sync

• Upcoming milestones or expected changes

• Topics to follow up

11:45 → 11:50 AOB