The debusine-admin command

The debusine-admin command is the usual django-admin command of a Django project. But debusine adds many custom management commands that are documented on this page.

This command must be executed on the server while connected as the debusine-server user. For example, to run the command check:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin check

For commands that are currently undocumented, you can still explore their features by using the --help command line option:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin edit_worker_metadata --help

Command output

If a command is successful: nothing is printed and the return code is 0.

Managing workers

`manage_worker`

The command manage_worker has two actions: enable and disable.

Workers are disabled by default: they do not receive any tasks to run.

To enable a worker find its name or its token using the list_workers command and then enable the worker using the manage_worker. To enable the worker worker-01:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin manage_worker enable worker-01

To disable a worker: use disable instead of enable.

`edit_worker_metadata`

A debusine sysadmin can attach static metadata to a worker. To edit the worker metadata for worker-01 you would run:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin edit_worker_metadata worker-01

This launches sensible-editor on a file with the current metadata. The worker metadata is presented (and expected to be formatted) in YAML.

Note

The initial metadata is presented as an empty dictionary ({}). That line should be deleted when you start inputting your own metadata.

When exiting the editor, the worker metadata will be updated with whatever got saved in the edited file (except if the YAML turns out to be invalid).

For non-interactive use, you can store the metadata in a file, and pass that file with --set:

$ cat > /tmp/metadata <<END
system:architectures:
- amd64
- i386
END
$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin edit_worker_metadata worker-01 --set /tmp/metadata
debusine: metadata set for debusine-internal

`list_workers`

List workers with information:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_workers
Name                                     Registered                        Connected                         Token hash                                                        Enabled
---------------------------------------  --------------------------------  --------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------------------  ---------
debusine                                 2023-10-02T14:13:12.342630+00:00  2024-01-10T10:41:46.716838+00:00  34c9c6d7ae395323c2ec6050cf4513bbf1fa9947701a0d7ba402ceba2e702c2f  False
ansible                                  2023-12-20T15:03:36.008399+00:00  -                                 0d5cbfe1539b189e2108ffefe7458b7651a6a688ca408d9568886c883693a7fc  True

Number of workers: 2

If a worker is not connected at this time: the Connected column has -. If it’s connected: it has the time that connected.

Workers can be enabled or disabled using the command manage_worker.

Managing users

`create_user`

Users can be created using the create_user command. The password for the new user will be printed.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin create_user john.doe john@example.org
m;Ag[2BcyItI..=M

A user can login on the website and then create tokens to be used by debusine client.

Tokens for a debusine user (to be used by debusine client) can also be created using the command create_token.

`manage_user`

Users can be managed using manage_user. To change the email of the john.doe user to johnd@example.org:

sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin manage_user change-email john.doe johnd@example.org

`changepassword`

Change the password for a user. The password is asked interactively:

sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin changepassword john.doe

`create_super_user`

Create a super user. Super users have access to the admin section of debusine-server (currently not used).

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin createsuperuser

The username is asked interactively.

`list_users`

List the users with their email and date_joined.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_users

username                  email              date_joined
------------------------  ------------------ ---------------------------------
john.doe                  johnd@example.org   2024-01-10T14:10:52.667568+00:00

Number of users: 1

Manage workspaces

`create_workspace`

Artifacts belong to workspaces. To create a workspace:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin create_workspace Debian

Workspaces are created Private by default (only registered users can access its resources) and without a default expiration delay. Use manage_workspace to change the permissions or expiry delay.

`manage_workspace`

Change a workspace. The command has the options:

--private: make the workspace private (only authenticated users can see the resources in it)

--public: non-logged users can see the resources of the workspace

--default-expiration-delay [DAYS]: set the default expiration delay for the artifacts that are created in this workspace.

To change the permissions of the workspace Debian to public:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin manage_workspace Debian --public

`list_workspaces`

List the workspaces with information:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_workspaces
Name    Public    Default Expiration Delay (days)    Default File Store      # Other File Stores
------  --------  ---------------------------------  --------------------  ---------------------
System  True      Never                              Default (Local)                           0
Debian  False     Never                              Default (Local)                           0

Number of workspaces: 2

Manage work requests

`list_work_requests`

List the work requests and its status. Similar information can be displayed using the web interface of debusine.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_work_requests
id  worker                                   created_at                        started_at                        completed_at                      status     result
----  ---------------------------------------  --------------------------------  --------------------------------  --------------------------------  ---------  --------
1  debusine                                 2023-10-02T14:17:54.213857+00:00  2023-10-02T14:17:54.291425+00:00  2023-10-02T14:18:58.489656+00:00  completed  success
2  ansible-worker-2                         2023-10-06T10:04:06.731566+00:00  2023-10-06T10:04:06.806152+00:00  2023-10-06T10:05:07.050323+00:00  completed  success

Number of work requests: 2

Manage notification channels

`create_notification_channel`

Create a notification channel:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin create_notification_channel Debian-LTS email << EOF
{
  "from": "admin@example.org",
  "to": ["lts@example.org"]
}
EOF

notification channels can be used when creating a work request.

Currently only the type email is implemented.

See Enable notifications for work requests for more information.

`manage_notification_channel`

To change the name of a notification channel from Debian to Debian-LTS:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin manage_notification_channel change-name Debian Debian-LTS

To change the associated data to the notification channel:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin manage_notification_channel change-data Debian-LTS << EOF
{
  "from": "admin@example.org",
  "to": ["new-to@example.org"]
}
EOF

`list_notification_channels`

List the notification channels with their information.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_notification_channels

name        method    data
----------  --------  -----------------------------------------------------------
Debian-LTS  email     {'to': ['lts222@example.com'], 'from': 'admin@example.com'}

Number of notification channels: 1

`delete_notification_channel`

Deletes a notification channel.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin delete_notification_channel Debian-LTS

Managing tokens

`create_token`

Create a token. Must be associated to a user. The token is printed to the stdout. Users can also create tokens using the web interface.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin create_token john.doe
ed73404d2edd232bc20955a2316a16c41e9b0bf2c240d6aceb7bf0706cb6d78f
debian@debusine:~$

The tokens created by create_token are enabled by default.

In debusine, there can be tokens that are not associated to users. They are created when a debusine-worker registers to debusine-server.

`list_tokens`

The command list_tokens lists all tokens by default. It is possible to filter tokens by the owner or the token itself, using the options --owner or --token, for example:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_tokens --owner OWNER
$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin list_tokens --token TOKEN

`delete_tokens`

Tokens can be removed using the delete_tokens command. By default, it asks for interactive confirmation unless --yes is used. See the options using:

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin delete_tokens --help

Administrative commands

`delete_expired_artifacts`

Delete expired artifacts if no other artifact depends on them.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin delete_expired_artifacts

The debusine-server package installs a systemd timer to run this command daily.

`monthly_cleanup`

Report and fix inconsistencies in Debusine’s DB and storage.

$ sudo -u debusine-server debusine-admin monthly_cleanup

The debusine-server package installs a systemd timer to run this command monthly.

The debusine-admin command

Command output

Managing workers

manage_worker

edit_worker_metadata

list_workers

Managing users

create_user

manage_user

changepassword

create_super_user

list_users

Manage workspaces

create_workspace

manage_workspace

list_workspaces