Hi,
it seems that actions on our end are necessary within a month for our
labs instances to survive the data center migration (see below).
I am all for migrating our instances (at least limn0, as it is
required for Wikipedia Zero).
But since I cannot find a Mingle card for the labs migration, and it
was not brought up before:
Do we want to migrate our instances?
Best regards,
Christian
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From: Andrew Bogott <abogott(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:59:00 +0800
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Labs migration starts on Tuesday
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Starting on Tuesday, March 4th, the new Labs install in the eqiad data
center will be open for business. Two dramatic things will happen on
that day: Wikitech will gain the ability to create instances in
eqiad, and wikitech will lose the ability to create new instances in
pmtpa.
About a month from Tuesday, the pmtpa labs install will be shut down.
If you want your project to still be up and running in April, you must
take action!
We are committed to not destroying any instances or data during the
shutdown, but projects that remain untouched by human hands during the
next few weeks will be mothballed by staff: the data will be preserved
but most likely compressed and archived, and instances will be left in
a shutdown state.
(Note: Toollabs users can sit tight for a bit; Coren will provide
specific migration instructions for you shortly.)
I've written a migration guide, here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_Eqiad_Migration_Howto It's a
work in progress, so check back frequently. Please don't hesitate to
ask questions on IRC, make suggestions as to guide improvements, or
otherwise question this process. Quite a few of the suggested steps
in that guide require action on the part of a Labs op -- for that
purpose we've created a bugzilla tracking bug, 62042. To add a
migration bug that links to the tracker, use this link:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Labs&c…
At the very least, please visit this page and edit it with your
project migration plans:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_Eqiad_Migration_Progress
Projects that have no activity on that page will be early candidates
for mothballing. If you want me to delete your project, please note
that as well -- that will allow us to free up resources for future
projects.
I am cautiously optimistic about this migration. Most of our testing
has gone fairly well, so a lot of you should find the process smooth
and easy. That said, we're all going to be early adopters of this
tech, so I appreciate your patience and understanding when inevitable
bugs shake out. I look forward to hearing about them on IRC!
-Andrew
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