On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Andrew Bogott <abogott(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Sometime soon we need to upgrade our OpenStack
deployment to the next
release, 'Mitaka'. I've done a test upgrade and the process was fairly
smooth, but there is at least one step that will cause unavoidable downtime
for new instance creation. Ideally this will only take around 20 minutes,
but given the number of surprises I ran into just now it wouldn't shock me
if it winds up taking several hours instead.
I propose to do this upgrade starting at the beginning of my day on next
Friday, April 13th. Unlucky number, but being a Friday there are no active
MediaWiki deployments so the lack of CI should be less disruptive than
usual. The next day is largely unscheduled for me, and the following Monday
is a WMF holiday so that gives us an entire four-day block to back out any
possible disasters before we're really stepping on release engineering's
toes.
The upgrade should not interfere with existing VMs. If there are no
objections, I'll send a public announcement about this tomorrow.
I would give the normal "OMG FRIDAY!!" warning, but the reduced
interference with CI makes sense. Much nicer honestly than the 3AM on
Sundays major change window I had to work with at $DAYJOB-2.
Bryan
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