Cloudalchemy roles have been deprecated or abandoned

[gerryd]

We are using quite some roles imported from the CloudAlchemy project. All of these have been deprecated or abandoned.

• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.prometheus
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.node-exporter
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.snmp-exporter
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.blackbox-exporter
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.alertmanager
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.grafana
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.bind_exporter
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.coredns
• ansible/playbooks/roles/cloudalchemy.alertmanager-irc-relay

Could these be replaced by something current?

(I have commented out all uses of these roles in site.yml and removed their git submodules)

[bastischubert]

Trying to fix this for FOSDEM 2024 as we aim to move everything (incl. Hardware)

[gerryd]

Would you see a chance to pick what roles you'd replace (at least the client side of things) by?

The video team will have a hackathon to more or less finalise the setup for 2024 from 19/10 evening until 22/10 evening. Would be good if the outcome of that weekend is as close as possible to reality. All encoding and capture laptops (90 machines total...) will be installed and get their stuff pushed, I'm fairly sure the next time most of these will be booted will be during the event itself.

[bastischubert]

Looks like the clients only use the node_exporter - i'll try to find some time later that week to update that part and rip out all unused cloudalchemy stuff.

[bastischubert]

will replace them with Prometheus.Prometheus
@krokodilerian fyi

[gerryd]

Great! Thanks, Basti!

https://github.com/prometheus-community/ansible
https://prometheus-community.github.io/ansible/branch/main/