SaltStack Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2021-09-15

Invitees - Attendees

• Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Nathan
• Regrets: Lori

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

• CsSaltStackWgMeeting20210901

Proposed Agenda Items

• network routing, eg: https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id=1177672
  • Dave and Anthony to discuss
• new auth stack - still some issues for IPv6
  • seems to be solved?
  • perhaps some issues, Anthony will create a ticket
• Salt formula for smtp mail
  • Anthony has a Salt recipe for Ceph servers to allow email from root
  • danger in allowing wide-open outgoing email, if/when someone gets compromised
• OpenVPN - are we ready for the 20.04 production version? RT#1166471
  • https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id=1166471
  • INF prefers to have separate sub-tickets
• 20.04 web servers - Nathan
  • have a dev container, updated most of the Salt formulas to work on 20.04
  • had issues with relative includes
  • Anthony - if containers are needed, create a sub-ticket
• others?
  • mirror.csclub is overloaded, so slow right now