Redesigning fedimg (Part 2): Communication with AWS

In the previous post, I discussed what is fedimg and how it works currently. In this post, I plan to explain the issue in the current uploading process of the AMIs and how we plan to fix it. What’s the problem? fedimg boots an utility instance using the RHEL AMI configured for that region. The problem with this design is that while adding a new region we need to look for the appropriate RHEL AMI in the newer region first....

2017-02-04 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Redesigning the fedimg AMI creation process - Part 1

What is fedimg? Fedimg is a Python-powered service that uploads the Fedora Cloud images on various Cloud providers. such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) . How does it currently work? Fedimg listens to fedmsg for nightly as well as the production compose builds messages. On receiving a new message, the FedimgConsumer triggers the upload process. fedimg uses fedfind to extract the metadata for the compose from where it get’s the URL for the compressed raw image files....

2017-01-30 · 2 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Autocloud: What's new?

Autocloud was released during the Fedora 23 cycle as a part of the Two Week Atomic Process. Previously, it used to listen to fedmsg for successful Koji builds. Whenever, there is a new message the AutocloudConsumer queues these message for processing. The Autocloud job service then listens to the queue, downloads the images and runs the tests using Tunir. A more detailed post about it’s release can be read here....

2016-08-24 · 3 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Fedora Meetup Pune August 2016

Fedora Pune Meetup for the month of August 2016 happened today at our usual location. We had in total 12 people turning out for the meetup. The event started with introductions and we had two new comers joining us this time, Trishna and Prathamesh. This time the event was mostly foccused around re-writing the GNU C Library Manual using reStructuredText and Sphinx. This task was decided during the release event that we had last month....

2016-08-20 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Fedora Meetup Pune August 2016

Fedora Pune Meetup for the month of August 2016 happened today at our usual location. We had in total 12 people turning out for the meetup. The event started with introductions and we had two new comers joining us this time, Trishna and Prathamesh. This time the event was mostly foccused around re-writing the GNU C Library Manual using reStructuredText and Sphinx. This task was decided during the release event that we had last month....

2016-08-20 · 1 min · Sayan Chowdhury