action #69718
closed
coordination #161414: [epic] Improved salt based infrastructure management
harmonize timezone used for our machines size:M
Added by okurz over 4 years ago.
Updated about 2 months ago.
Category:
Feature requests
Description
Motivation¶
Has been first reported in #62309#note-3 that our workers use inconsistent timezone which makes reading and especially comparing logs harder. Also see #65118#note-29 for another related reported. We should use UTC on all machines to have something fair for all our users and employees regardless where they are situated, without time jumps and consistent.
Acceptance criteria¶
- AC1: All machines used within OSD infrastructure use UTC consistently for their internal timezone
- AC2: autoinst-log.txt files show UTC for new logs
Suggestions¶
I would also like to change the default in Grafana. We would just have to change a single line in /etc/grafana/grafana.ini:
# Default timezone for user preferences. Options are 'browser' for the browser local timezone or a timezone name from IANA Time Zone database, e.g. 'UTC' or 'Europe/Amsterdam' etc.
default_timezone = UTC
- Category set to Feature requests
- Target version changed from future to QE-Core: Ready
- Target version changed from QE-Core: Ready to Ready
- Subject changed from harmonize timezone used for our machines to harmonize timezone used for our machines size:M
- Status changed from Workable to In Progress
- Assignee set to dheidler
- Description updated (diff)
I just had a look at o3: the workers don't seem to use UTC yet, just the webui.
So maybe o3 can be done as part of this ticket, or a followup ticket should be created.
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from In Progress to Feedback
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
Updated o3 workers by hand and osd host & workers via salt.c
- Status changed from Resolved to Workable
- Priority changed from Low to Normal
- Parent task set to #161414
Apparently only openQA worker+webUI were changed, also see https://suse.slack.com/archives/C02CANHLANP/p1737465467585649
@qa-tools Can we change timezone settings in z/kvm workers please?
Some tests are detecting time backwards jump as the test VM is configured with UTC, but the host has CET and during boot it confuses chrony
- Status changed from Workable to Feedback
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
- Related to action #175989: Too big logfiles causing failed systemd services alert: logrotate (monitor, openqaw5-xen, s390zl12) size:S added
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