Small update on this.
Over the past 3 months, I have slowly familiarised myself with the
tiles.wmflabs.org and I have now migrated rendering and serving of these
tiles to a new server. I still need to do some work on the following things:
1: tile expiration
2: puppet deployment
3: log collection/rotation
4: renderd logging
5: renderd socket getting stuck ?
wma.wmflabs.org is still not saved however.
DJ
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 2:39 PM Derk-Jan Hartman <
d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is just another small reminder that, because the
servers which host
tiles.wmflabs.org and
wma.wmflabs.org (wikiminiatlas) and overpass-wiki
run on a version of the OS (Ubuntu Trusty) that is no longer supported
(and hasn't been available for new instances since november 2017).
These services need maintainers and support by community members in order
to keep them alive after dec 18th (after which wmflabs will phase out those
versions) and before the EOL of early 2019 of the OS. Unfortunately it
seems no one is stepping up so far to convert these machines.
This issue is tracked at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204506
As I was curious, I looked around on the tile server a bit and used what I
could find to update
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM_Tileserver#Technology_stack
This is all the information that I could gather, but i'm FAR from sure if
that is complete information and if I would break anything with a rebuild
basing myself on that info, so any information on missing elements etc.
would be appreciated. I've not gotten around to looking at wikiminiatlas.
If the services are not rebuild then likely they will just disappear at
some point for all layer variants. This includes the mapnik, black and
white, hill shading, hike bike layers. As I have no idea how many users of
these services there are, it is hard to say what the effect of that would
be.
DJ