Linux operations handbook
Rota information
Linux Engineering team members are meant to modify this table at their convenience as long as:
- Concerned team members are made aware of any new change
- The total amount of weeks on rota assigned to each team member stays the same
The rota starts on Friday at 17:30 and finishes on the next Friday too at the same hour.
Main tasks
- Pay attention to any incoming tickets for both
Linux Software Building 4th Line Support
andLinux Support 4th Line Support
. Try to fix them as long as you can handle them. Otherwise, talk to other experts to find a solution together. - Updates of CC7 and C8 are fully automated now using Nomad jobs. The shifter should verify the mails from these jobs. They should not be run manually any longer without need and without having checked with the team.
- On a daily basis, updates are pulled and moved to testing. Details can be found here: CC7 testing
- On Thursday morning, packages are moved from testing to production, see: CC7 production release
Note that SLC6 is gone. There is no need any longer to follow the instructions. Any related bookmarks to the instructions should be removed now.
!!! note "" On Thursday, first release to production, then to testing, otherwise you will have to make sure test updates from the same day do not end up in production
Linux Rota Schedule
The Linux Rota schedule has been centralised and can be found here: https://lcsops.web.cern.ch/overview/schedule.html