SLATE Collaboration Face-to-Face

21 Jan 2019, 08:30 → 23 Jan 2019, 17:00 America/Detroit

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Meeting details in this Google doc

Monday, 21 January

SLATE Demonstration: SLATE Workshop Startup

08:45 Coffee and breakfast

Coffee and breakfast outside the room

1 Workshop Introduction

Introduction (Rob)
Workshop logistics (Shawn)
ATLAS Centrally Managed Build Process:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c7Lmmp_-vsrCKg2Ggie6WWfjcaO-oDw4lOIqFRNXalE/edit#heading=h.x803ifi2xymt

2 Build Utah machine from raw hardware

Lincoln and Ben facilitate
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c7Lmmp_-vsrCKg2Ggie6WWfjcaO-oDw4lOIqFRNXalE/edit#heading=h.x803ifi2xymt
Boot machine from USB image
Install software using Puppet
Provision network (Calico, metallb)
Manual registration steps
Validate basic Kubernetes and SLATE client functionality

12:30 Lunch

Find places nearby along South U

SLATE Storage: ATLAS Storage Discussion

Bob Killen facilitates

3 ATLAS Storage Discussion

ATLAS project defines disk requirements.
How do we layout disks on ATLAS nodes?
How do we provision and advertise the storage consistently for xcache and other SLATE apps?
ATLAS XCache is relying on manual partition in current packaging
Does this storage packaging allow for other SLATE or ATLAS apps seamlessly?

SLATE Node Level Monitoring: ATLAS Node Level Monitoring

4 Discussion on SLATE Monitoring with ATLAS as a Driver

Gabriele and Bob facilitate

Monitoring doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lMji2dwLPkHPgtgYk5U5f0H500kOLeQswAd9SbBl1RU/edit#heading=h.n9pkgznjiiyp
Goal for planning session: come up with the general deployment strategy that will be implemented over the next few months and record it in JIRA
Metrics
Logs
Goal for working session: Prometheus/Grafana installed at least on one cluster standalone
Items to discuss:
Deployment strategy for metrics monitoring (standard helm charts? create our own?)
Deployment strategy for logs
Outside access (ingress, dns name, …)
Location for central services (i.e. Grafana and Prometheus aggregator)
Data aggregations from the clusters (Push Gateway, prometheus/thanos/cortex?)
Cluster level permission (what requires admin privileges and what doesn’t?)
Metrics (what do we want to monitor from each node?)
User level permissions (i.e. logins and permissions for Grafana)

15:30 Coffee and Snacks

SLATE Monitoring Discussion: Monitoring Discussion for SLATE

5 SLATE Monitoring Discussion

Discuss what SLATE should do about monitoring for at least two use-cases: 1) Monitoring for the SLATE application developer: what does the "SLATE pane of glass" provide for a developer and 2) Monitoring for the SLATE platform managers: what does the "SLATE pane of glass" provide for a platform deployer/manager?

Other cases?

How to monitor the network?

Wrap-Up Day1: Wrap-Up and Action Items

Summarize day's work, review action items.