April logbook

2025-04-30

• Quick wins
  • 440: Fix(GHA): conditionalise unnecessary steps on Grafana Terraform applies.
  • 439: fix(inspector,sq): centralise logging cfg
  • enable dependabot
  • use poetry cache in GHA: https://github.com/elsevier-centraltechnology/cortex-inspector/pull/441
  • remove broken list_clusters cmd: https://github.com/elsevier-centraltechnology/cortex-inspector/pull/443
• PR reviews:
  • verify functionality manually.
  • get 418, 382, 339 merged
  • do release

2025-04-28

• PR 394
  • verify functionality manually.
  • merged
  • release to pick up smoke tests

2025-04-28

• PR 394
  • verify functionality manually.

2025-04-25

• Luis
  • release
  • fix terraform permission issue, but introduce other problem
• reviews
  • 382: failing test
  • accept 418 once SQ cognitive load change made and add follow up tickets
• 394 (partner ALB checks)
  • test driven approach: /checks and bundle assertions

2025-04-24

• dynamic client
  • continue to fix tests after refactoring
• reviews
  • dynamic client for Luis
  • smoke test for Liam
  • with Khush
    • review 382
    • tim to pick up 394
    • accept 418 once SQ cognitive load change made and add follow up tickets

2025-04-23

• dynamic client
  • caught Luis up on use of boto factory and other stuff I told Garrett on Weds
  • fixing tests after refactoring

2025-04-22

• mostly on inspector dynamic client
• reviews for Khush
  • found issues
  • fixed globally installed fastapi-codegen

2025-04-18 & 21: public holidays

2025-04-17: lieu day

2025-04-16

• significant amount of time showing Garrett the ropes on Inspector / captest

2025-04-15

• no acceptance tests run again
  • no dev cap test image published
• jira review
  • closed out a couple already done

2025-04-14

• 2h with KA building and deleting a test cluster
• captest change to support VPA and fix acceptance tests
• continue dynamic client for Inspector
• planning

2025-04-11

• discussions of smoketsts with GP, LM and then dashboard creation with AN and KA

2025-04-10

• start on dynamic client within Inspector
• complete PR for memory resources

2025-04-09

• work on new ClusterOperator that has k8s client injected

2025-04-08

• update status on smoke tests
  • done
• complete PR for messages
  • done
• do release
  • and extra one to fix typo
• review Liam’s PR
  • done
• review Khush’s PR
  • long investigation to ultimately arrive at what I instictively told him: make it a PlatformCommand. needs to continue to extend K8sResourceCommand too as relies on ingress json being available.

2025-04-07

• officevibe
  • mgr inform about org: ‘somewhat’ - disconnect of ce from strategy
• smoke test meeting
  • Garrett arguing to disable smoke tests, agreed 2 weeks to smooth the process
  • need update tomorrow (and probably daily)
• retro
  • 4Ls: smoke tests comment and Town hall comment about being customer focused

2025-04-04: Dev10 Laravel

2025-04-03:

• Town hall
  • Jill stating need for 6% in Elsevier
  • know your customer: impossibility for core-engineering