Cloud-announce March 2025

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Network maintenance operation on 2025-03-27 12:30 UTC
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Hello, there will be a network maintenance operation happening on Thursday 2025-03-27 12:30 UTC that may impact all Wikimedia Cloud Services, including: * Cloud VPS * Toolforge * PAWS * and any others The planned operation window will last for 1h, from 12:30 UTC to 13:30 UTC. We have prepared the required changes and we are expecting no outages. But the operation is sensitive and we would like you to be informed of potential service disruptions as a result of the operations. If you want more technical details, we are using a Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389958 regards.

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cloud-vps upgrades Wednesday, 2025-04-02
by Andrew Bogott 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Next week I'll be performing a routine openstack upgrade, moving us to version 2024.2 'dalmation'. This is a minor change; apart from a few horizon fixes the change should not be noticeable. There will be a short Horizon outage and a network reset during the upgrade but users should be otherwise unaffected. I'll start the upgrade at 14:00 UTC. -Andrew

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opentofu users: please update network name!
by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Hello, If you have a Cloud VPS project and use opentofu to manage virtual resources, this message is for your -- otherwise feel free to ignore. In particular, Toolforge users are free to ignore this message. The main Cloud VPS virtual network resource name is changing: * from: lan-flat-cloudinstances2b * to: VLAN/legacy If your opentofu / terraform code mentions this network name, you will need to update it. See also Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389942 regards.

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Cloudelastic migration from Elastic -> OpenSearch is now complete!
by Brian King 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Hello WMCS users, I just wanted to follow up on my earlier email from 04 March. The Cloudelastic migration from Elastic -> OpenSearch is now complete as of 13 March[0] . As previously stated, this change should be invisible from a user perspective. That being said, please let us know if you are seeing any issues by responding here or in the ticket[1]. Best, Brian King SRE, Data Platform/Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation IRC: inflatador [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387904#10634555 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387904

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Wikitech SUL migration is complete!
by Bryan Davis 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Thanks to a final burst of effort by Amir [0], the Wikitech SUL account migration [1] is now complete. Wikitech is currently a "normal" Wikimedia SUL wiki and no longer in any way connected to the Developer account system. [2] This change has long been imagined [3] as a way to make it easier for the general Wikimedia community to contribute to the technical documentation for the Wikimedia production services and Cloud VPS & Toolforge documentation maintained on Wikitech. We decided to undertake this work back in July 2024 [4] primarily to reduce the complexity of moving Wikitech's hosting into the same Kubernetes cluster [5] as the rest of the Wikimedia wikis. That initial goal was accomplished in October 2024 [6], but it took quite a bit more time and energy to attempt to reconcile the legacy Developer accounts with the SUL account system. After stalling out for a bit, we came up with a new roadmap and implementation plan in early February [7] that we were thankfully able to sustain to the conclusion today. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2024_Migrating_Wikitech_Account_to… [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161859 [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=News/2024_Migrating_Wikite… [5]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes/Clusters#WikiKube [6]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292707 [7]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/… Bryan, on behalf of the Wikitech admins and everyone who helped with the migration -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808

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