SaFi Bank Space : 2022-Nov-11 - Brave switch

Highlighted Key items/actions

  • Confluent Kafka

  • Euronet VPN

    • Description: TBD

    • Action: Ondřej Wantula (Unlicensed) - document the proxy workaround for the future - usable in case Euronet reacts slowly.

    • When: TBD

  • SSL Certificates

  • Default nodepools

    • Description: GCP is creating its own nodepools (for an unknown reason), potentially resulting in breaking some services. Workaround to fix broken services - deleting the new nodepool.

    • Action: Ondřej Wantula (Unlicensed) to investigate GCP auto-scaling to figure out the root cause.

  • Communication

    • Action: Remind tech-leads to read #sre-announcements (Denis Galajda (Unlicensed) Peter Kmec (Unlicensed) )

      • We will continue to announce in advance: what we’re going to do; when this can be expected; what are the impacts/implications (e.g. downtime)

    • Action: Share #sre-announcements to POs & PMs channels (Denis Galajda (Unlicensed) )

    • Recommendation: Set-up a bot to remind app teams to perform needed actions.

  • GitHub Pipelines

  • Terraform structure

  • Dedicated Channel

    • Action: Create a temporary channel dedicated to issues and queries related to major DevOps change to create a Point of Contacts for other teams.

Key Observations

  • TBD

Future Recommendations

  • “Don’t to everything at the same time“ - but rather in sequence

  • TBD