May logbook

2025-05-30

release?
check bundles now created
cap tests integrated in PR?
pre-commit for captests?
learn prompting
MCP: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

2025-05-29

unplanned work discovered when checking inspector captests
- no bundles creatyed recently
- rebasing error
- also threw up issue with rbac check on lambda (needs dyna client)
- fixed and merged with help of Ashish

2025-05-28

planning:
- doc ticket looking for love: https://elsevier.atlassian.net/browse/CEIP-6147
- enforcement of requests / limits no overall ticket yet, will be post-calico
- calico removal, need matrix for partner people on call for issues
inspector job watch
- feature flag
- retest, get merged
- announce?
- release?
eks spike?
tidy up ibuild?
poetry plugins?

2025-05-27

inspector job watch
- terraform for test timeout
- resolve return type hint issues
- make mandatory params mandatory in API (resolve potential None warnings)
- introduce captest error handler

2025-05-26: Public holiday

2025-05-23

1-2-1
- need to update the smoke test conversation with progress on watch
- Paul get Irfan to organise follow up while he’s away
  - should perhaps not do K8s without discussion
standup
- discuss change for changes sake nature of Liam’s style PR
  - Paul: need to review, up to you whether to challenge or go with the flow
Luis / watch
- much of morning and afternoon (4h?)
  - had to explain Artifactory / pass etc approach
- got to conclusion with working solution

2025-05-22: Dev10: Flowable GHA

2025-05-21

Luis
- implemented background tasks from FastAPI
- discovered AWS lambda does not support: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-web-adapter/discussions/406
- their alternate requires AWS lambda web adapter
  - other options are EKS or Step Functions
Engineering Forum
- Irfan: Cortex deploy
  - increasing standardisation requests from partners
    - start with getting together with reps from BU
    - agree example stack, probably for an HTTP endpoint
    - then build out agreement on what is needed like PDBs, multi az or whatever
  - still talking about ‘a feature in the blueprint’

2025-05-20

dynamic client
- complete converting CommandOptions to Dict
  - test each command variant and server
Luis
- paired on implementing a watch on the job to get its status
Check in with Khush on SQ again
- half a day but did get there!

2025-05-19

sonarqube revert / fix fwd with KA
complete rbac-relevant PR, then proceed to dynamic client?
work with Luis on job
book dev10
book hols
fix metrics as discussed w Irfan / Paul

2025-05-16: Vacation

2025-05-15

smoke tests discussion
- Garrett would like to invoke direct and ask test framework for answers
- is platman the only consumer of tests (separate smoke tests) -> No
- is it necessary to run in cluster
- is NR the necessary
rebasing dynamic client PR
- separated the rbac-relevant part into https://github.com/elsevier-centraltechnology/cortex-inspector/pull/468 to discuss with Ashish

2025-05-13

metrics: MTTR is broken
review again param validation PR from Khush
SDLC
- test parallelisation
- xray to high as well as critical
- burst pods to 2 during update

2025-05-13

review Liam’s captests again
reuse the same comment in reporting coverage on PRs
always write bundles in the build dir
long discussion of Coralogix in ‘anything goes’ - centralise or decentralise mgmt
metrics

2025-05-12

smoketest failure: identity-id-dev-use
planning
- failure of acceptance criteria for keda
  - 4Ls: no captest, doc review done.
  - need BUILD to not build whatever features they fancy but actually enable partner functionality
c3
- demo landing page well received by Paul and Tim
review and agree all cap test related things with Liam
- retire cap test ns creation
- comment that dynamic client not desired but accepted not worth reworking

2025-05-08

business services argo rbac issue
1-2-1
- reword OKR for SDLC more generallly (as well as poetry)
- align Carbon with cost savings
- spike on Inspector in EKS
existing plugins
- docker
  - https://github.com/nicoloboschi/dockerpyze: no poetry 2 support This may be false result as found same in inspector and resolved with poetry self remove poetry-pre-commit-plugin
```
poetry self add dockerpyze@latest
Using version ^2.2.0 for dockerpyze

Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (1.4s)

Because poetry-pre-commit-plugin (0.1.2) depends on poetry (>=1.2.0b1,<2.0.0)
 and no versions of poetry-pre-commit-plugin match >0.1.2,<0.2.0, poetry-pre-commit-plugin (>=0.1.2,<0.2.0) requires poetry (>=1.2.0b1,<2.0.0).
So, because poetry-instance depends on both poetry (2.1.2) and poetry-pre-commit-plugin (>=0.1.2,<0.2.0), version solving failed.
```
  - https://vagmcs.github.io/poetry-docker-plugin/#multi-platform-builds
    - does not support the requires-python instruction yet
```
  at ~/.local/pipx/venvs/poetry/lib/python3.12/site-packages/poetry_docker_plugin/plugin.py:138 in handle
```
    134│ # extract project name, version, authors and python version 135│ project_name = pyproject_config.get(“tool”).get(“poetry”).get(“name”) 136│ project_version = pyproject_config.get(“tool”).get(“poetry”).get(“version”) 137│ project_authors = pyproject_config.get(“tool”).get(“poetry”).get(“authors”) → 138│ full_python_version = pyproject_config.get(“tool”).get(“poetry”).get(“dependencies”).get(“python”) 139│ package_mode = pyproject_config.get(“tool”).get(“poetry”).get(“package-mode”, True) # if None assume to be True 140│ 141│ # parse Python version 142│ if full_python_version == “*”:
    - fix by duplicating
```
- similarly doesn't support authors
```
```
at ~/.local/pipx/venvs/poetry/lib/python3.12/site-packages/poetry_docker_plugin/plugin.py:233 in _build_image
```
    229│ exclude_package: bool = self.option(“exclude-package”) 230│ 231│ image_tags = [replace_build_in_vars(tag) for tag in image_config.get(“tags”, list())] 232│ if not image_tags or any([re.search("./.?(:.)", tag) is None for tag in image_tags]): → 233│ author_name = re.match("([\w+\s]+)(<.*>)?", project_authors[0]) 234│ if author_name is None: 235│ self.error(“Author name cannot be matched.”) 236│ 237│ org: str = author_name.group(1).strip().lower().replace(" “, “.”)
    - provide image tags explicitly
```
- and on and on: project.name:
```
```
at ~/.local/pipx/venvs/poetry/lib/python3.12/site-packages/poetry_docker_plugin/plugin.py:214 in replace_build_in_vars
```
    210│ config_name: Optional[str], 211│ ) -> None: 212│ def replace_build_in_vars(text: str) -> str: 213│ text = ( → 214│ text.replace(”@(name)", project_name.replace("-", “”)) 215│ .replace("@(version)", project_version) 216│ .replace("@(py_version)", python_version) 217│ .replace("@(sha)", "" if commit_sha is None else commit_sha)
```
- abandon
```

2025-05-07

smoke test issue
- dead nodes
- save the next one for AWS
multi-arch build
- tidy up and refactor different extensions
- team wants multi-arch for captest even if single arch is necessary for lambda

2025-05-06

review the refinement Paul and Khush did that I missed.
multi-arch build (captests working, lambda complaining)
- lambda cannot support multi-arch (containerd created) images
  - check providence flag
- docker desktop needs manual configuration (any other way?)
- containerd images are much faster for JFrog to scan (20s vs 120s)
  - build is slower too, need stats
  - faster now (9pm)? Artifactory was having a go slow?
CORS
Auth via API token

2025-05-05: bank holiday

2025-05-02

completed Inspector on ARM
1-2-1
- feedback on deployment?
- OKRs review

2025-05-01

dynamic client refactoring
Luis
- discussed enabling Inspector nonprod on e2e briefly
dynamic client refactoring
Inspector on ARM