SaltStack Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2021-03-02

Attendees

• Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

Agenda Items

• Nathan/Anthony - merging formula list and determine who will do what
• the network cable changes will have been made by Dave and Dan for the -203 nodes
• Anthony, possibly with Nathan's assistance, will apply the ceph formula to the 421 machines

Discussion:

• need a clearer process for how Salt changes are to be implemented
  • how should changes by requested/notified? * email/Teams channel/RT ticket and git * Anthony suggests that a ticket be made and assigned to the person managing the Salt master * Anthony work on flow chart. (check out https://flowchart.fun/)
  • the person running the Salt master then reviews, updates git repository and pushes out the change
• how to communicate changes?
  • dedicated channel by service/function for Git commits?
    • create set of web URLs to the README.md for https://git.uwaterloo.ca/salt_cs tree/ (requested by author).

Next meeting

• Next meeting: Tuesday March 9th at 2pm