SRE update 2024-11-15

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+title: SRE Team Update
+slug: 2024-11-15-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 release `10.1.2` was deployed to all environments
+
+* Dbsync release `13.6.0.1` was deployed to all environments
+
+* Just recipe `query-gov-action-status` was added to aid in live voting
+  analysis of governance actions
+
+* The mainnet bootstrap cluster was scaled temporarily to accommodate a
+  significant increase in client load which developed during the past week
+
+* With scheduled end of year vacation time and holidays starting, the cadence
+  of work is expected to slow a bit in the following few node SRE updates
+
+## Repository Work
+
+### Capkgs
+* Credential-manager bins were added for use in cardano-parts ops devShell
+  [capkgs-commit-8cabb18](https://github.com/input-output-hk/capkgs/commit/8cabb189a5d48cb414acbc7496d26033615ac2aa)
+
+### Cardano-parts
+* Sets cardano-node to `10.1.2`, dbsync to `13.6.0.1`, mithril to `v2445.0`, faucet
+  to `10.1`. Governance recipes were moved to their own governance recipe file and
+  a `query-gov-action-status` recipe for live vote analysis was added. New tracing
+  system module improvements were made to prevent unexpected metrics export
+  stoppage along with other miscellaneous improvements. More detail is available
+  in the release notes:
+  [cardano-parts-release-v2024-11-18](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-parts/releases/tag/v2024-11-18)
+
+### Cardano-playground
+* Sets cardano-node to `10.1.2`, dbsync to `13.6.0.1`, mithril to `v2445.0`, faucet
+  to `10.1`. Governance recipes were moved to their own governance recipe file and
+  a `query-gov-action-status` recipe for live vote analysis was added. KES
+  rotations were done for multiple environments. More detail is available in the
+  PR description:
+  [cardano-playground-pull-36](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-playground/pull/36)
+
+### Cardano-mainnet
+* Sets cardano-node to `10.1.2`, dbsync to `13.6.0.1`, mithril to `v2445.0`.
+  Governance recipes were moved to their own governance recipe file and a
+  `query-gov-action-status` recipe for live vote analysis was added. Bootstrap
+  threshold alerts were adjusted and blockperf was added to temporary bootstrap
+  scaling machines. More detail is available in the PR description:
+  [cardano-mainnet-pull-26](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-mainnet/pull/26)