SRE update 2023-09-29 (#259)

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+title: SRE Team Update
+slug: 2023-09-29-sre
+authors: johnalotoski
+tags: [sre]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
+
+## High level summary
+
+The SRE team continues work on cardano environment improvements and general environment maintenance.
+
+Some notable recent changes, updates or improvements include:
+* Sanchonet environment was re-spun starting from slot 7171200 and updated to cardano-node [8.4.0-pre](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/releases/tag/8.4.0-pre).
+* The use of cardano-node [docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/inputoutput/cardano-node) will be deprecated in preference of [GHCR](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/pkgs/container/cardano-node)
+
+## Lower level summary
+
+### Capkgs
+* Refactor parsing scripts, add github action automation, various bugfixes and cleanup: [capkgs-compare](https://github.com/input-output-hk/capkgs/compare/c2c7680...a274b72)
+
+### Cardano-parts
+* Updates secrets layout scheme, adds sops enc/dec for jobs, adds cloud monitoring profile, updates flake templates and other improvements/fixes: [cardano-parts-pull-8](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-parts/pull/14)
+
+### Cardano-playground
+* Updates for new cardano-parts secrets handling and layout, TF workspace handling, group multivalue DNS support, grafana cloud monitoring and other improvements: [cardano-playground](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-playground/pull/2)
+
+### Cardano-world
+* Update sanchonet network to cardano-node 8.4.0: [cardano-world-compare](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/compare/8cb559a...3edafb9)
+* Rotate KES on shelley-qa: [cardano-world-commit](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/commit/8301b044ad106ff8ca71dcbbdb5b17fe9ec6fc6d)