SRE update 2023-08-18

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+title: SRE Team Update
+slug: 2023-08-18-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 updates or improvements include:
+* Sanchonet and shelley-qa environments were updated to 8.2.1-pre.
+* Work on two new repos utilizing [flake parts](https://flake.parts) for cardano cluster generation, automation and operation.
+  * [cardano-parts](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-parts) -- Nix flake parts for cardano clusters
+  * [cardano-playground](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-playground) -- Cardano testnet clusters
+
+## Lower level summary
+
+### Cardano-ops
+* Cardano p2p relay and alert threshold adjustments: [cardano-ops-compare](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-ops/compare/c4a04cc...5a0eabe)
+
+### Cardano-parts
+* New repo: [cardano-parts](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-parts)
+
+### Cardano-perf
+* Misc improvements to perf cluster functionality: [cardano-perf-compare](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-perf/compare/0944c40...d3a8644)
+
+### Cardano-playground
+* New repo: [cardano-playground](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-playground)
+
+### Cardano-world
+* Improve explorer topology generation alerting: [cardano-world-pull-109](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/pull/109)
+* Update p2p configs: [cardano-world-pull-110](https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/pull/110)
+
+### Inputs-check
+* A flake parts module to check input closure sizes recursively for optimization considerations: [inputs-check](https://github.com/input-output-hk/inputs-check)