On 02/11/11 21:48, Ryan Lane wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Lane wrote:
>>
https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
>>
>> Just a suggestion ;)
>>
>> - Ryan
1) This is the
first time it is mentioned in this mailing list.
It isn't the first time labs has been. I was suggesting labs, not the
console. I was replying to Chad, and he has seen the console, so he
likely understood what I meant perfectly well.
As someone who tested
http://nova-controller.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/ it was quite a
shock to find it out in this way.
1b) Not even
mentioned in the Server Admin Log.
Meh. I don't log every single thing I do. It's in the git log for the
puppet repo, at minimum.
Is this is the way we publish things now? As git logs? :)
2) It has a
funny concept of "you have an account"
In what way? I'm giving out accounts to people slowly, over time. It's
in kind of closed beta mode right now. Basically, if you ask for an
account, you get one.
If the user is not in Special:ListUsers, which kind of user is it?
I guess it should have been developers "can get an account by poking Ryan"
3) Public IPs
are private
This is the way that OpenStack Nova works. If a public IP hasn't been
assigned to the instance yet, then the private IP is also considered
the public IP.
bastion.wmflabs.org, for instance has a legitimate
public IP, with a legitimate public DNS entry.
Last week, I didn't know there was such server (in fact, it seems to
have been launched _after_ I sent that mail).
*If* you have an account on
labsconsole.wikimedia.org, *and* you go to
https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NovaAddress *and* you
know what a bastion host is, then you may figure it out.
Note that my first attempt was to try creating a ssh tunnel through
gerrit.wikimedia.org
4) Instances
don't seem to be on wmf dns, despite statements of "ssh
<nameofinstance>" and "adding wmflabs domain in DNS"
That is not true. I'm running powerdns on
virt1.wikimedia.org with an
LDAP backend.
All instances are in DNS when they are created, automatically. That is
private DNS, though. Instance "test" would be "test.pmtpa.wmflabs".
It's possible to SSH from a bastion host to all private hosts.
It turns out you registered
wmflabs.org
I had been trying things like
foo.wmflabs.wikimedia.org or foo.wmflabs
5) Reading the
git instructions make me feel sick
Well, let's give you an account, and you can fix it.
By blanking the page? :)
6) The RSA key
(dc:e9:68:7b:99:1b:27:d0:f9:fd:ce:6a:2e:bf:92:e1?) is not
listed
RSA key for what? Why would it need to be listed anywhere? Maybe
listing the RSA keys for hosts with public IPs is a good idea...
For gerrit, which is everything i could connect to.
It is shown on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#settings,ssh-keys though,
so you can take it out.
7) Why is
there a unicorn ?
Because this is the place for magic to happen.
- Ryan
/me waits for the magic to happen...
So far, it still doesn't seem useful.