GitLab / Infrastructure Group

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zWa3EfBfK1BWZnk8JER6yzsFZOKdPnNJNp_Iflcs2GY/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vXMXvOqDIIZPINb2wpk4lRFAukIVHwgpsJZfaSqg9HY/edit#heading=h.crgtre63jgsn

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vXMXvOqDIIZPINb2wpk4lRFAukIVHwgpsJZfaSqg9HY/edit#heading=h.ifqbt936qglx

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A short discussion about alternatives that we have for site downtime for the HAProxy upgrade.

Notes (internal): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v6kheVYq1ap4Xq6Kmnj0uKRelGTq5s-mRHZHGos7KLQ/edit#heading=h.dhp4sslmd35r

Discussion on the future of the Service Catalog in Infrastructure.

Notes (internal) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x8g2a0SxOUMevHVKncFiAF0ucMp9liIBAaZth_Uu2m0/edit#

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQo-ccDd_Ix3ASZjQjaMaW3p_Kr90R86aNmxHUY9Rb0/edit

This video demos a scenario of a zonal outage that would require a full relocation and recovery of Gitaly servers in the affected zone, by restoring them from snapshot.

See also https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/reliability/-/issues/16665 (internal)

doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jh_hRvhaYBx9ENPmmnZ4e34QOc9-3oHKvA5aog22aio (internal)

issue - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/reliability/-/issues/15447

To support issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-shell/-/issues/563

We performed a packet capture on a single Pod servicing GitLab Shell in Canary.

Rehab Hassanein and John Skarbek discuss the pipelines for how we deploy configuration changes and deployments for GitLab.com

Timeline:

* 00:24 - Configuration Pipelines
* 09:39 - Why we use a different instance to Deploy changes to GitLab.com
* 11:15 - Auto-Deploy Pipelines

References:

* GitLab.com Configuration Repository: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/k8s-workloads/gitlab-com
* GitLab Helm Chart: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/charts/gitlab/
* Reference Issue for this video and more to come: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/-/issues/13980 - Drop a comment for some ideas of what to cover!

Stan, Matt, Andrew, Jason, Marin and others discuss some corrective actions following on from a production incident: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/5158

Skarbek and Jason Plum investigate a target event involved in consul misbehaving with some queries, and target some options for moving forward to continue the investigation or possible solutions to the issue.

Reference: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/271575

Members of the infrastructure team review how to determine and what to look for when observing that the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler has reached its capacity limitation.

There was a recent problem with background job processing that we think may be due to a deployment. Help figure out exactly what version is running and the changes since the last deploy.

Craig Furman provides an overview into how we utilize Jsonnet to generate a decently sized GitLab CI configuration.

This is primarily utilized: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/k8s-workloads/tanka-deployments

More about Jsonnet: https://jsonnet.org/

Other places where we utilize Jsonnet: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks

The Design and Automation meeting views and has a conversation regarding the GitLab Environment Toolkit.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/quality/gitlab-environment-toolkit

3:00 - Meeting Begin
3:50 - What is GET?
5:30 - Conversation
20:05 - Demo Start, and continued conversation

If you haven't already, watch the first Video in this series about the Infrastructure team structure at GitLab: https://youtu.be/SLTZzFT4mTs




Topics Covered:

- Definition of an Incident

- Who attends the incidents?

- What causes an incident?

- Who declares an incident?

- The Incident Room.

- The Incident Lifecycle.


Slack name to engage the SRE is: (at)sre-oncall

An introduction to the Infrastructure team division and main responsibilities at GitLab.


Official Team Structure documentation: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/team/



More about Infrastructure at GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/

This is a sync meeting with infrastructure realm owners at GitLab discussing how to create company-wide standards for test and ephemeral infrastructure. You can learn more about our current iteration in the handbook at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/infrastructure-standards.

You can read the transcript in the meeting agenda.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jdW-HxMKoTm75cZg5L0uXeoRhY0lHoValwXcnA7A6Zo/edit?usp=sharing

A quick demo of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks/-/merge_requests/2684, which allows SREs to quickly navigate between different observability systems, such as Kibana, Bigquery, Stackdriver and Sentry. The aim is to reduce the MTTD for incidents, helping to drive up the availability of GitLab.com.

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Square Project Ep3. Funny business meeting illustrating how hard it is for an engineer to fit into the corporate world! Another day of Anderson navigating the nuances of office life and his cubicle. Subscribe for more short comedy sketches & films: http://bit.ly/laurisb Check out the previous episodes of The Expert: Square Project!
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Starring: Orion Leem, Alex Wadham, Abdiel LeRoy, Amir El Masry, Ben Kernow, Eleanor Byrne, Seán Burke & Ayanna Coleman-Potempa

Directed by Lauris Beinerts
Screenplay by Lauris Beinerts
Story by Orion Lee & Lauris Beinerts
Based on characters created by Alexey Berezin
Producers: Michael Bel Gil & Damien Beaton
Executive Producers: Orion Lee & Lauris Beinerts
Director of Photography: Matt Riley
Production Designer: Catiana Becker
Costume Designer: Sabina Piccini
Editor: Connor Snedecor
1st Assistant Director: Archie Hollway
1st Assistant Camera: Matt Tregoning
2nd Assistant Camera: Joanne Smith
Sound Recordist: Xan Márquez Caneda
Gaffer: Pete Carrier
Make-up Artist: Sabrina Garside
Sound Designer: James Bryant
Colourist: James Willett

Equipment provided by Picture Canning & CARRIER-media.
Shot on location at Runway East.
Special Thanks to Natasha Larkin, Spike O'Connell & Edgars Jēkabsons.

A Constellation Creatives, FILM 0.1 & Meshes production.
(c) 2018.

The original short story "The Meeting" (in Russian): https://alex-aka-jj.livejournal.com/66984.html

The original short comedy sketch "The Expert": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg&list=PLKlTnphWMK_pbfHE4VilQg3GjVuXJdo5I

We made this video using:
- Arri Alexa Mini camera: http://www.arri.com/camera/alexa_mini/
- Cooke S4/i Prime lenses: https://www.cookeoptics.com/l/s4i.html
- Chapman Cobra dolly (a life saver!): http://www.chapmanleonard.com/dollies/cobra.html
- A pint glass (for the wide shot)
- Printed handouts (all 375 pages if you ask)
- Sound Devices 633 recorder and 2 boom mics: https://www.sounddevices.com/products/mixers-with-integrated-recorders/633
- A very illustrative graph
- Adobe Premiere Pro (for offline edit): http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html
- DaVinci Resolve (for colouring): https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
- Final Cut Pro X (for online - I know, I know...): https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/
- A bit of Buzz
- Pixelmator: http://www.pixelmator.com/pro/
- Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/
- TextEdit (for all sort of things...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextEdit
- Fountain & 'afterwriting: http://fountain.io/ and http://afterwriting.com/ (for the script, all 13 versions of it)
- A meeting room at Runway East: https://runwayea.st/

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