Last week in scylla-cluster-tests.git master (issue #77; 2025-01-10)

This short report brings to light some interesting commits to scylla-cluster-tests.git master from the last week.
Commits in the ea1a40b5…63550823 range are covered.

There were 32 non-merge commits from 9 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

SCT now sends RackAwarePolicy cassandra-stress log events when running with RackAwareRoundRobinPolicy and provided rack name. This information appears in report emails similarly to shard awareness info.

For easier Azure VM access, hydra ssh now supports Azure backend.

Renovate was introduced for dependency tracking, running weekly on requirements files and stress-tools docker images. Several updates were already made including jinja, Azure identity and Scylla python driver.

Mergify was replaced with auto-backport.py script for backport automation, similar to other Scylla repositories. For first-time PR owners, an invite to scylladbbot/scylla-cluster-tests fork will be sent due to GitHub permission limitations.

Node-exporter was upgraded to v1.8.2 with removal of unneeded default collectors (matching Scylla’s configuration but without interrupts).

See you in the next issue of last week in scylla-cluster-tests.git master!