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From: "John A. Lotoski" <39752197+johnalotoski@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:20:45 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] SRE update 2024-11-01 (#500)

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+title: SRE Team Update
+slug: 2024-11-01-sre
+authors: johnalotoski
+tags: [sre]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High level summary
+
+The SRE team continues work on Cardano environment improvements and general maintenance.
+
+Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:
+
+* Cardano-node \[pre-]releases from `10.0.0-pre`, `10.1.0-pre` and `10.1.1` were deployed to appropriate environments
+
+* Sanchonet was respun on `2024-10-21` for cardano-node >= `10.0.0-pre`
+
+* Private and shelley-qa chains were retired for now
+
+* Remaining cardano-world legacy resources have now been terminated
+
+* Some ci-world legacy resources were migrated in prep for termination of the remainder
+
+
+## Repository Work
+
+### Cardano-faucet
+* Cardano-faucet was updated for cardano-node 10.1 compatibility.
+  [cardano-faucet-pull-16](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-faucet/pull/16)
+
+### Cardano-parts
+* Sets cardano-node to `10.1.1`, mithril to `v2442.0` and updates iohk-nix-ng for
+  the recent sanchonet respin. Updates for cardano-cli breaking changes were
+  incorporated into nix jobs, justfile recipes, bash and python scripts,
+  process-compose processes. New template just recipes and psql prepared
+  statements were added for ease of governance action pool voting and follow up
+  vote analysis. Some nixosModule options were refactored for consistency across
+  the module set. More detail is available in the release notes:
+  [cardano-parts-release-v2024-11-06](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-parts/releases/tag/v2024-11-06)
+
+### Cardano-playground
+* Sets cardano-node to `10.1.1`, mithril to `v2442.0`. Sanchonet was respun on
+  `2024-10-21` and private and shelley-qa chains were retired. Breaking change
+  fixes for cardano-cli were applied and new just recipes added. More detail is
+  available in the PR description:
+  [cardano-playground-pull-35](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-playground/pull/35)
+
+### Cardano-mainnet
+* Sets cardano-node to `10.1.1`, mithril to `v2442.0`. Kes was rotated for block
+  producers. Breaking change fixes for cardano-cli were applied and new just
+  recipes added. More detail is available in the PR description:
+  [cardano-mainnet-pull-25](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-mainnet/pull/25)
+
+### Iohk-nix
+* Configuration changes for the sanchonet respin on `2024-10-21`
+  [iohk-nix-pull-588](https://github.com/input-output-hk/iohk-nix/pull/588)