Infrastructure Archives – Page 2 of 27

Category: Infrastructure (page 2 of 27)

All articles in this category are related to the Infrastructure team in the Fedora Project. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure

End of OpenID authentication in Fedora Account System

On the latest Fedora Infrastructure weekly meeting we decided on a date of OpenID authentication sunset. The date is 20th May 2025.

Why the change?

The OpenID is being replaced by OpenIDConnect (OIDC) in most of the modern web and most of the Fedora infrastructure is already using OIDC as the default authentication method. OIDC offers us better security by handling both authentication and authorization. It also allows us to have more control over services that are using Fedora Account System (FAS) for authentication.

What will change for you?

With the End Of Life of OpenID we will switch to OIDC for everything and no longer support authentication with OpenID. If your web or service is already using OIDC for authentication nothing will change for you. If you are still using OpenID open a ticket on Fedora Infrastructure issue tracker and we will help you with migration to OIDC. For users using FAS as authentication option there should be no change at all.

What will happen now?

We will be reaching to services we identified as using OpenID directly, but as we don’t have control over OpenID authentication we can’t identify everyone.

If you are interested in following this work feel free to watch this ticket.

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 11 2025

March 14, 2025 / zlopez / 0 Comments

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 10 – 14 March 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 10

March 7, 2025 / lenkaseg / 0 Comments

Week: 3rd Mar – 7th Mar 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 9

February 28, 2025 / lenkaseg / 0 Comments

Week: 24th Feb – 28th Feb 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 08 2025

February 24, 2025 / Josef Skladanka / 0 Comments

Week: 17-21 Feb 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 07 2025

February 14, 2025 / zlopez / 1 Comment

Week: 10th Feb – 14th Feb 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 6

February 7, 2025 / lenkaseg / Comments Off

Week: 03 – 07 February 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 05 2025

January 31, 2025 / jnsamyak / Comments Off

Week: – 27th January – 31th January 2025

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 04 2025

January 24, 2025 / zlopez / Comments Off

Week: 20th January – 24th January 2025

Fedora datacenter move later this year (2025 version)

January 23, 2025 / zlopez / 9 Comments

The Fedora Project has instances in a number of datacenters and clouds all over the world, but a majority of instances are in a datacenter located in Virginia, USA. This datacenter space, along with the majority of servers in it, were generously provided by our primary sponsor, Red Hat. We moved to our current space from another Red Hat datacenter back in 2020, and now it’s time to move again.

So why would we want to move? Well, there’s a number of reasons:

We have expanded to fill all the physical rack space available. This leaves no room to expand capabilities, like RISC-V builders, etc..
We are hitting power limits. Several of our racks are close to the point where if one of the two power circuits went down, some machines would power off abruptly.
Many of our machines were purchased during the previous data center move in 2020, and this new move will provides another opportunity to invest in more power efficient, faster, and denser hardware.

After a bunch of discussion and planning, we will be moving to a new datacenter near Raleigh, NC. This site will give us room to expand and has much more available power, allowing for higher densities.

The good news – most of the new hardware has already been purchased! We plan to install and set up the new hardware in the new datacenter, logically switch to the new site with slightly temporarily diminished capacity ( mostly in staging ).Then, we will ship the newer machines from the old datacenter to the new one, bringing everything back to greater than 100% capacity.

Our goal is to complete this move over the course of a few weeks, and have everything back up with greater capacity than before, and with as minimal impact to the project as possible.

We are looking at mid May to do the switchover, after Fedora 42 has been released. Timing is still tentative, but we will provide more detailed information as the plan dates solidify. Our next key milestone is to use the Beta Go/No-Go as an indicator that this is the best time to execute the move. At the end of this transition we expect everybody’s experience will be faster builds, faster tests, and to have room for further expansion in the future.