Cloud-announce November 2019

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Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects
by Andrew Bogott 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs. We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year. I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Cloud_VPS_2019_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 December arrives, I will shut down and begin the process of reclaiming resources from 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

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Possible DNS interruptions on Wednesday
by Andrew Bogott 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

I'll be upgrading our Powerdns install on Wednesday. Because our system is redundant and I'll only upgrade one node at a time, I don't expect any service interruption. As always, though, unexpected mishaps may cause brief service interruptions. Most likely these interruptions would be confined to new VM creation, but in the worst case there might be short periods of total DNS failure. I plan to start the work at around 17:00 UTC (that's 09:00 in San Francisco) and the total upgrade will take an hour or two.

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Cloud-announce November 2019