Cloud-announce August 2018

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NFS maintenance next week
by Brooke Storm 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

We will be performing some updates (including reboots) on the tools NFS servers for Toolforge and CloudVPS instances that use project NFS (with the exception of dumps) at 1500 UTC on Wed Aug 29. The maintenance window will be two hours and more than one NFS server failover is expected during that time. This could cause some temporary impact to performance and load on the various connected servers during failovers. Brooke Storm Operations Engineer Wikimedia Cloud Services bstorm(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:bstorm@wikimedia.org> IRC: bstorm_

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VPS users, please claim your projects (second notice)
by Andrew Bogott 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

In an attempt to identify abandoned VPS projects, I've created a wiki page that lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge Currently 85 projects[2] on that list are unclaimed. If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects. When October arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming unused projects. If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. You can also log in to http://horizon.wikimedia.org which will provide you with a handy menu of projects that you are currently a member of. Thank you! -Andrew and the WMCS team [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/112/neutron_is_finally_co… [2] Here, for good measure, is that list. Every one of these projects is currently a candidate for deletion: aicaptcha analytics bots chicotestproject ci-staging codereview collection-alt-renderer commonsarchive community-labs-monitoring contributors dashiki deep-learning-services discourse discourse-wam download etytree fastcci getstarted glampipe globaleducation hat-imagescalers hound iiab iiifls1 ircd jupyter kubernetes-testing maps maps-team math matrix mcr-dev mediahandler-tests mediawiki-docker multimedia mw-api-testing mw-extension-ids mwfuzz mwoffliner newsletter nonfreewiki openocr ores orig otrs pagemigration paws phlogiston piwik project-smtp rcm rdfiodev reading-lists reading-web-staging recommendation-api redirects reportcard sciencesource sentry services services-testbed t136871 test-twemproxy thumbor tor traffic twl utrs video wcdo wdq-mm wikibase-nearest-neighbors wikibrain wikidata-federation wikidata-page-banner wikidata-primary-sources-tool wikidumpparse wikifactmine wikimetrics wikisource-tools wikistream wikitolearn-dev wildcat wlmjudging wmf-research-tools

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VPS users, please claim your projects
by Andrew Bogott 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

We're drawing close to a painful migration event[1], during which we will (probably) have to copy VMs between hosts one project at a time, largely by hand. For that reason, I'm feeling even stingier than usual about preserving unused and/or abandoned projects and instances. It's been a couple of years since we last did this, and I'm sure there are some newly forgotten projects in the cloud. So, I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge If you are a VPS user, please visit that page and mark any projects that you use as {{Used}}. Note that it's not necessary for you to be a project admin to mark something -- if you know that you're currently using a resource and want to keep using it, go ahead and mark it accordingly. If you /are/ a project admin, please take a moment to mark which VMs are or aren't used in your projects. When October arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming unused projects. If you think you use a VPS project but aren't sure which, I encourage you to poke around on https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ to see what looks familiar. Worst case, just email cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org with a description of your use case and we'll sort it out there. Exclusive toolforge users are free to ignore this task. Thank you! -Andrew and WMCS team [1] The eqiad->eqiad1 migration, also known as the 'nova-network to neutron' migration which I hope to write more about soon. It won't happen by surprise, I promise.

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Operation on Cloud VPS next monday 13th Aug
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi! Next monday 13th we will be doing some maintenance on the main Cloud VPS deployment to merge the keystone service of both main and eqiad1 deployments (the new one that we will eventually put into production). Toolforge users will not be affected by this outage. Day: Monday 13th August Start time: 14:00 UTC Finish time: 16:00 UTC or ASAP Keystone is a central point in openstack, so most horizon operations like login, creating/deleting VMs could be affected. On the other hand, VMs will keep working and we don't expect any network outage. This operation will allow us to have a smooth transition in the future when we move all projects and instances to the new eqiad1 deployment and is a previous step to having multi-region support in our Cloud VPS service. Please let us know any question or suggestions you may have. best regards.

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