Ops meeting notes: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operations/Operations_Meeting_Notes/TechOps-2017-10-30

Updates:

* There is a mini ops offsite planned for the weekend after all hands, it's Tech Ops only (not us), max limit 18, and voluntary.

* Initial annual planning is happening now for board to approve the budget envelope for next year. Programs and major Cap-ex stuff may be set up now, reach out to Mark if you have something to suggest/add here

* Giuseppe had a question about when we are going to turn on the future parser for puppet in instances, I said I'd find out and update - if you know, may be ping him, or update a ticket :)

Clinic duty notes:

* Labsdb reboots planning - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168584. Labsdb1001 is done now, 1003 is scheduled for next week

* Followed up on tools-package-builder puppet failures, Alex resolved it by upgrading a package - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178920

* Set up the labsdbadmin user with powers to access raw database tables, with help from Manuel. See - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178128. Also note that we are tracking Wiki Replica specific grants in puppet now at https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/role/templates/mariadb/grants/wiki-replicas.sql

* Maintain-dbusers failure due to old account user clash resurfaced, fixed - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179075

* Helped releng run a command across deployment-prep using cumin

* Resolved some Toolforge access requests

* Helped an outreachy applicant run their tool on Toolforge over the weekend

* Other IRC support and patrolling over the week(end)


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Madhumitha Viswanathan
Operations Engineer, Cloud Services