# Sciebo Site Report: Challenges in supporting more than just the core project

- Institution: CERN
- Department: HEP Computing
- Speaker: Marcel Wunderlich
- Year: 2023
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3016967)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Toil is the enemy of any admin and SRE.

Automation of our processes has made operations quite smooth, allowing us to spend more time in supporting and coevolving some long awaited projects (overleaf, sccuot_ng, rds...)

The technical side of things almost seems trivial compared to keeping an overview of the todos across ticket systems or resolving dependencies of people waiting for each other.

Restructuring workflows is challenging, but can really help removing unnecessary roadblocks.

Automating project management in gitlab and github allows to have many smaller repos, which reduces merge backlogs and allows for a finer granularity of code ownership.

Sometimes some vertical integration is needed to further automate, which brings its own challenges.

## Lectures

1. [Sciebo Site Report: Challenges in supporting more than just the core project](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3016967/a465cb42cadd), 17 min (CERN's player)