Lab updates 2026-09-01

[rbo]

Recurring standard work items:

• Pin Update Warning Message to slack channel

• monitoring.coe.muc.redhat.com (VM) - dnf update (running on sf1)

• sf1 - dnf update

• sf2 - dnf update

• ISAR Cluster - cluster update to latest channel

• ISAR Cluster - Update operators

• Upgrade keycloak operator (check channel)

• Upgrade LVM Storage (check channel)

• Upgrade ODF (check channel)

• Upgrade AAP (check channel)

• Upgrade ACM (check channel)

• Upgrade Quay (check channel)

• Upgrade OCPVirt (check channel)

• NetApp CSI driver (check channel)

• Backup switch config

  Steps: How to backup

  Backup switch config

  to Google Drive/My Drive/COE/Backups/arista-sfp

  echo -e "enable\nshow running-config" | ssh admin@arista-sfp.coe.muc.redhat.com > $(date -I)-arista-sfp-config.txt
  

  to Google Drive/My Drive/COE/Backups/arista-rj45

  echo -e "enable\nshow running-config" | ssh admin@arista-rj45.coe.muc.redhat.com  > $(date -I)-arista-rj45-config.txt
  

  Source: Lab updates 2025-12-16 #320 (comment)

• Backup DHCP config (see [here]

  Steps: How to backup

  Use local Google Drive sync or upload to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q45CiLYSrihd8uCW6z9OpJ-BvNh4uBkN?usp=drive_link

   cd Google Drive/My Drive/COE/Backups/
   mkdir -p "./kea-dhcp-$(date -I)"; 
   scp "root@sf1.coe.muc.redhat.com:/etc/kea/kea-*.conf" "./kea-dhcp-$(date -I)"

  Source: Lab updates 2026-02-03 #336 (comment)

• Check argocd and cleanup out-of-sync

• Create follow up issue and calendar blocker for next update on the first tue of following month

• Un-Pin Update Warning Message in slack channel

Special work Items for this update:

• power on ucs57 - its currently powered down due to AC limitations
• Check status of Console pods constantly being redeployed / JIRA - when fix is available, re-enable the ODF Console plugin which is currently disabled as workaround. Move over to next update when fix is not yet available.
• power off ucs57 again - its currently powered down due to AC limitations

Follow up to #399