Category: Infrastructure (page 3 of 30)

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

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 35

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: 25 Aug – 29 Aug 2025

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Outreachy Internship Update: Building the Fedora Release Schedule Planner API

As part of my Outreachy internship with the Fedora Project, I’m building an API to modernize how Fedora plans its release cycles.

With the help of my mentor Tomáš Hrčka, the goal is to replace the current XML-heavy system currently on pagure.io with something flexible, easy to use, and well-structured.

Explore the source code on Codeberg: Fedora Release Schedule Planner.

Why This Project Matters

Fedora’s current release planning tools rely on manual XML editing, which is challenging for newcomers and difficult to scale. This project aims to:

  • Improve contributor experience with interactive API documentation.
  • Support seamless querying and updating of release data.
  • Allow smoother integration with Fedora’s broader tooling.

Progress Highlights

  • Framework migration:
    • Transitioned from Flask to FastAPI (PR Link)
    • Leveraged Pydantic for data validation due to deep integration with FastAPI
    • Introduced auto-generated Swagger documentation
Documentation for the release schedule planner API
  • Code refactor:
    • Adopted modular architecture with clean routing (PR Link)
    • Standardized endpoint naming
  • CI/CD setup:
A screenshot of the CICD pipeline

These changes already make onboarding contributors easier and improve testability.

What’s Next

I’m excited about these upcoming milestones:

  • Refining and aligning tests with the FastAPI structure.
  • Integrating with Fedora infrastructure for live data.
  • Strengthening the deployment pipeline for production.

Challenges

My biggest challenge and opportunity is simultaneously learning new backend technologies like FastAPI and OpenID Connect for authorization, along with techniques to improve developer onboarding. Though the learning curve is steep, my mentor’s continuous guidance on the Fedora infrastructure, career development and general advice makes it manageable.

Reflections

This internship has been an incredible learning experience. I’m gaining hands-on exposure to backend architecture, continuous integration practices, and open-source collaboration. More importantly, the chance to build something lasting for Fedora makes the work genuinely rewarding.

There’s a lot left to tackle, and I’m looking forward to pushing it further.

Infra and RelEng Update – Week 32

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: 04 Aug – 08 Aug 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 31, 2025

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: 28th July – 01st August, 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 30 2025

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: 21st – 25th July 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 29

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: 14 July – 18 July 2025

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
List of planned/in-progress issues

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 28 2025

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: 7th – 11th July 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 27, 2025

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: 30 June – 04 July 2025

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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 26

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: 23 June – 27 June 2025

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Less than 2 weeks until the Datacenter move

It’s less than 2 weeks until the switch of fedoraproject to our new datacenter, so I thought I would provide a reminder and status update.

Currently we are still on track to switch to the new datacenter the week of June 30th. As mentioned in previous posts:

  • End users hopefully will not be affected (mirrorlists, docs, etc should all be up and working all the time)
  • Contributors should expect for applications and services to be down or not fully working on Monday the 30th and Tuesday the 1st. Contributors are advised to hold their work until later in the week and not report problems for those days as we work to migrate things.
  • Starting Wednesday the 2nd things should be up in the new datacenter and we will start fixing issues that are reported as we can do so.

We ask for your patience in the next few weeks as we setup to do a smooth transfer of resources.

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