GitLab GitLab Group Kickoffs - Enablement:Distribution, 15 Sep 2022

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From YouTube: GitLab 15.5 Kickoff - Enablement:Distribution

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Planning Issue - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/distribution/team-tasks/-/issues/1074

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Hello: everyone, my name, is dylan moreno and I'm the product manager here at gitlab for distribution and today, I'm getting giving our 15.5 kickoff here is our scheduling issue for 15.5. I've updated the description for the focuses we hope to achieve here in 15.5.

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uh We certainly won't finish our uh the first goal here, but it's something we want to continue working towards, which is improving our distribution team pipelines uh for developer productivity. So this is a long issue or excuse me a long epic and a very long-standing project, but we want to keep continue making progress for that. So this is one of the main themes that we'll focus on.

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However, we are still working on a lot of compliance work, so this will be more something that we're we fit in if we have a chance, um along with some other issues that I'll mention here. But um the main focus, I would say, is our compliance work and if we can um outside that compliance work, our personal goal and distribution will be improving our team pipelines.

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um The next portion of the issues I'm going to mention here are a lot of issues that our customer requests, and so these issues that I have listed here are going to be issues that I mentioned in the kickoff video. So you can find them here in the scheduling description.

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The first issue- I don't mention here that is very exciting- is adding packages for amazon linux 2022.. This is set to be released soon and we want to prep. So something that we're going to work towards in this milestone is adding these packages for amazon links 2022, so that we're ready when the release is available.

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So the next two issues I have here support multiple architecture builds for cng images and viability of cng. Support for multiple multi-arch images are all a part of a grander epic, uh adding multi-architecture support for cloud-native gitlab.

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However, what we want to focus on first is these two issues, because this will help us investigate and move forward our support for arm architecture and cpus.

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So currently, there's no cloud native gitlab docker image available for these arm. 64 cpus and I know, there's growing interest for these new architectures, and so we would like to add our containers into the mix moving to the next issue here right now, we do not have a service for rotating the logs, similar to our built-in service that we have in the omnibus.

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So in omnibus we have a built-in log rotate service, and we would like to reflect the same here in our chart because right now, as the logs are created, they do not rotate and that creates a large storage consumption problem, and we want to mitigate that. So this issue is probably more of a research issue. Hopefully we'll discover a lot and move towards a solution.

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um I don't foresee this um actually being the full implementation, but um if it's not log rotate it'll be something similar, and so uh we want to want to fix this problem.

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Moving on to our next issue here, which is we have a- we have a a problem right now with repo mirroring not working for uh package cloud repos, so we actually have a fix in place and because of that it, it caused this problem of not working for images related to or excuse me, repos related to red hat satellite.

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So customers who are wanting to do mirroring for red hat satellite run to this problem because of a fix we have in place for for a different thing. So we would like a longer term goal to have a proper and more formal fix in place for everything.

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But in the meantime we want to investigate and document a workaround for mirroring our gitlab rpm repos via red hat satellite, as the title here suggests. So this is an exciting one and we want to make sure that we offer at least a workaround in the meantime that is suitable, so we're going to do our own investigation here.

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uh The final one that I want to mention here is adding our gitlab agent for kubernetes to our um to the iron bank. So uh right now, customers um are interested in using uh gitlab adrian for humanities, but we don't offer that, and so we want to add the agent for kubernetes container to these dsop scripts, which is essentially um the iron bank, so for our iron bank customers. This is something that we're going to work towards in 15.5.

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Thank you, everyone. That is all I have today for our 15.5 kickoff. I look forward to having a great milestone and have a great rest. Your day.