- Develop and Execute Upgrade from CentOS/Stream 8 to Rocky 8: => 2 months
- Description: Part of the nodes in our Openstack/Ceph environment need to be upgraded without interruption of the running services. The nodes are managed by Ansible and the upgrade needs to developed, automated, documented and executed from within our Ansible code base.
- DoD: all nodes upgraded and running Rocky 8
- Develop and Execute Upgrade from Rocky 8 to Rocky 9: => 5 months
- Description: All of the nodes (approximately 400 nodes) in our Openstack/Ceph environment need to be upgraded without interruption of the running services. The nodes are managed by Ansible and the upgrade needs to developed, automated, documented and executed from within our Ansible code base. New logic needs to be added to the Ansible code base to make it compatible with Rocky 9.
- DoD: all nodes upgraded and running Rocky 9
- Develop and Execute Lenovo HW monitoring and automation: => 1 month
- Description: Hardware failures/warnings concerning disks, DIMMS and other components need to be added to our Zabbix monitoring, in accordance with the monitoring we have in place for our other hardware vendors. Automating hardware configurations (BIOS, firmware, RAID, etcetera) is part of this work.
- DoD: Lenovo automation and monitoring in Zabbix fully aligned with other vendors.
- Develop and Execute Zabbix upgrade: => 1 month
- Description: our Zabbix monitoring system (currently running version 4.0) needs to be upgraded to Zabbix version 7. The upgrade may force an update of our running scripts or components, and fixing such issues will be part of this work.
- DoD: Zabbix monitoring running version 7 and all current monitoring functional again.