I just restricted the Debian 10 Buster Cloud VPS image to the Toolforge
project. Puppet 7 packages aren't available for Buster and it won't be
possible to enroll new Puppet 5 clients to Puppet 7 based infrastructure.
I did however allow the Toolforge project to access the image, as I suspect
we might need to provision new K8s nodes (and decom some grid nodes) using
Buster as running them on newer OS versions still needs some more setup and
testing.
Further details are on the task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351499>.
Taavi
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Taavi Väänänen (he/him)
Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services
Wikimedia Foundation
During our team meeting today we settled on the following timeline for
shutting down the grid. I'm emailing here for posterity; Komla will take
care of notifying our users.
* This week: prepare pywikibot migration solution
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249787 (Taavi + Raymond)
* Nextweek: media blitz (Komla)
**emails
** wikitech site notice
** wikitech list email
** cloud-announce email
** wikitech talk pages
* Late Nov/Early Dec: commandline notification
** jsub + company are wrapped in some way to notify users about incoming
shutoff
* Dec 14th: warning shot
** Tools owned by unresponsive admins or unreachable admins are stopped
** Tools run by unresponsive admins get their crontab entries commented
out, and warnings inserted
* Feb 14th: grid is stopped entirely
** All tools stopped, new submissions prevented
* Mar 14th: grid infra deleted