Sepia Lab Wiki

cephlonaccess

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-16T14:55:33+0000

Cephlon For now this tool can only be used in the downstream tucson lab (We are working in making it available in the upstream lab) Requesting Access Requesting access to cephlon: * Request a new snipe-it user and password. write down your desired username, e-mail address and public ssh key

contactsandresources

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-01-30T18:05:46+0000

WIP - Contacts Name Title Role E-mail IRC SME Christina Meno Manager, Software Engineering Ceph Engineering Infra Manager

devplayground

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-02-03T22:40:26+0000

Developer Playgrounds Developer playground machines are used for developing Ceph. All machines have cephfs mounts for accessing the teuthology, scratch, and postfile file systems. It is encouraged to use these machines to view teuthology logs as they will be significantly faster than the

faq

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-11-21T15:42:25+0000

External Projects nfs-ganesha Q: Who is responsible for building and providing nfs-ganesha? A: Kaleb Keithley's team. Q: Who is responsible for defining and deciding what version of nfs-ganesha ships with X version of Ceph? A:

gettingstarted

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-06-13T13:32:42+0000

Getting Started This document is geared toward developers and new users of the Sepia lab. It will cover setting up an efficient workstation for use with the lab. If you haven't already, start by requesting VPN access to the lab. This is necessary for accessing any lab machine or internal service.

sidebar

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-08-26T17:47:40+0000

General Lab Info (Mainly for Devs) * Getting Started * VPN Access * Wireguard Instructions * Cephlon Access * Developer Playground * Accessing Testnodes * Contacts/Other Resources * FAQ Hardware * Infrastructure * adami * bath * braggi * confusa * doli * folio * gibba * ivan * mako * officinalis * omani * reesi * robsoni * smithi * sockeni * soko * sulcata * toko * trial * vossi Lab Infrastructure Services * cephfs * apt-mirror …

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-27T20:07:19+0000

Home This wiki contains notes on managing and using the “Sepia” lab of test machines used by the Ceph upstream developers. The target audience for this documentation is administrators and people managing the Sepia machines. If all you need is information on using the lab,

testnodeaccess

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-03T15:12:01+0000

Testnode Access Summary We have about 250 baremetal testnodes that get automatically reserved (locked) and unlocked by teuthology “workers.” Workers are daemons on the teuthology.front.sepia.ceph.com VM that are fed jobs via a beanstalk queue. This page will cover setting up your workstation to lock and unlock testnodes as well as schedule teuthology suites.

testnodereimage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-28T14:53:04+0000

Reimaging Testnodes Summary mira, smithi, and gibba are automatically reimaged by FOG when locked using teuthology-lock. Prior to 2018, we didn't have FOG and testnodes would need to be reimaged every so often using cobbler when the OS would get too mangled to re-use. The dhcp server is configured to point smithi and mira to the

vpnaccess

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-08-18T20:25:15+0000

VPN Access Requesting Access Visit Approvals User access requests from @ibm.com and @redhat.com e-mail addresses are automatically approved once they confirm their e-mail via a magic link. (Other domains can be added. For now, IBM and Red Hat seemed safest.)

wireguard

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-08-24T15:23:14+0000

Wireguard Access Summary We use Wireguard for VPN access to the Sepia lab. Lab access requests are now automated. How To Summary * Install Wireguard * Generate a public/private keypair * Provide the public key in the Onboarding Portal * Once your access is approved, you'll be e-mailed your Wireguard IP