Cloud-announce January 2021

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Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hello, we are planning to change how Cloud VPS instances and Toolforge tools contact WMF-hosted wikis, in particular the source IP address for the network connection. The new IP address that wikis will see is 185.15.56.1. The change is scheduled to go live on 2021-02-08. More detailed information in wikitech: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running. If you detect a block, a rate-limit or similar, please let us know. If you are a WMF SRE or engineer involved with the wikis, be informed that this address could generate a significant traffic volume, perhaps about 30%-40% total wiki edits. We are trying to smooth the change as much as possible, so please send your feedback if you think there is something we didn't account for yet. Thanks, best regards. -- Arturo Borrero Gonzalez SRE / Wikimedia Cloud Services Wikimedia Foundation

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Upcoming cloud-vps project deletions
by Andrew Bogott 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hello! The 2020 project opt-in process wrapped up at the end of the year, and we've identified the following projects as abandoned: - asyncwiki - blog - commons-corruption-checker - fastcci - finding-glams - ign2commons - lizenzhinweisgenerator - lta-tracker - meza - ogvjs-integration - puppet - snuggle - wikidata-federation - wikidata-primary-sources-tool - wikidata-realtime-dumps - wikimania-scholarships At the end of this month (2020-01-31) those projects will be deleted along with all related data and VMs. If you know of anyone associated with those projects who is not on this list, please bring this to their attention. And, if you think any of this is in error, please notify me immediately. Thank you! -Andrew + the WMCS team

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Wiki Replicas Redesign update: New cluster ready for testing on February 1st
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

Hi everyone. We have some updates related to T260389 Redesign and rebuild the wikireplicas service using a multi-instance architecture <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260389>. The new cluster will be ready for testing on February 1st, and we need your help. Please subscribe and comment on T272523 Early testing of the multi-instance architecture <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272523> or reach out if you would like to help test it by migrating your code. We want to closely monitor it and tune it as we ramp up usage. PAWS and Quarry will migrate to use the new cluster later in February, we will publish more information as soon as possible. The old cluster will remain available in parallel during the migration. Thank you for your help, -- Joaquin Oltra Hernandez Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation

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cloud-vps maintenance scheduled for Thursday, 15:00 UTC
by Andrew Bogott 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

This Thursday we will be upgrading the cloud-vps OpenStack install to version 'Stein'. During the upgrade window (probably about an hour), Horizon will be disabled. Existing tools and VMs should be largely unaffected, although there may be a brief network interruption when the routing services restart. The upgrade is scheduled for 15:00 UTC, which is 7AM in California. -Andrew + the WMCS team

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