This wiki contains notes on managing and using the “Sepia” lab of test machines used by the Ceph upstream developers.

The primary audience for this documentation is administrators and people managing the Sepia infrastructure. If all you need is information on using the lab, Start Here.

The Sepia lab is currently located in one of IBM's datacenters in Poughkeepsie, NY. Previous homes are Irvine, CA and Morrisville, NC.

Ping/Power support is provided by IBM's OneIT team. Generally, tickets should be submitted by the Infra team.

Sepia is the name we gave to our pool of test machines. It happens to be both a color and a genus of cuttlefish. When we have different kinds of hardware in the sepia pool, we name them after individual species in the sepia genus (e.g., mira or smithi).

A useful reference for such things is http://animaldiversity.org/ or Sepia_(genus)

A very simplified version of the automation/test workflow is:

github push -> jenkins -> baremetal jenkins builder -> shaman <-> chacra -> teuthology -> fog -> testnode -> paddles