SPS Validator Node Update Fun...

This week was definitely interesting, Splinterlands was making some updates to the SPS validator node software to introduce some new features.

This was supposed to be a single hash breaking update where all the validator node operators are supposed to upgrade their nodes before April 28. It was supposed to be a single update from version 1.31 to version 1.40.

Well, it didn't turn out that way. I have proactively upgraded to 1.40 and it ran fine for a few days. Then a whole bunch of 1.40 nodes started going down including my node. I had to replay the SPS chain from a snapshot and it turned out that 250 gigabytes of space I had on the node was not enough.

I had done some deep cleaning of my Docker and freed up 166 gigabytes. After that my node was finally back up. Then Splinterlands released an update to fix the issue, so I upgraded to 1.41

But that was not the end of it there were a few vulnerabilities that were discovered and I had to upgrade my node to 1.50 and then to 1.51.

Hopefully this is going to be it for now, though there are a few more days before April 28.

At work we had a production deployment today which went smoothly. We have updated sixteenth containers some of which were Linux and some that are Windows 2022 Server. The Windows Server containers were upgraded about a month ago and each of them had 155 vulnerabilities.

One critical vulnerability, eighty something major vulnerabilities and the rest were moderate. That is a lot for just one month, but that is like that with Windows every month. We just can't upgrade them on a two week cadence as we have to wait for a custom container image that our content management vendor releases on a monthly basis.

But that is not all, I am finally getting a new laptop for work, so in between meetings and production deployments I am setting it up as well and there are a lot of development tools to setup.

At least I got out today for a walk to the post office to mail a small box for my mother in law and to pick up some Adjaruli boats for the three of us. I also managed almost an hour at the gym in our office building. So I got some great steps and a weight lifting workout.

Tomorrow is back to the office in Seattle again, and we are going to do some AI work first half of the day and then I will have some time to work out at the gym.

I am also driving our daughter to school and picking her up from school tomorrow. Today was nice as I got a ride from my wife to the train station on her way to drop off our daughter at school. Tomorrow she is busy at work so I am the driver and will have to park at the police station once again and walk to the light rail station.

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