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Do you need Ubuntu Trusty for new VMs?
by Andrew Bogott 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Tool-forge users can ignore this email, it only concerns VPS project owners. Long ago, the Wikimedia Operations team made the decision to phase out use of Ubuntu servers in favor of Debian. It's a long, slow process that is still ongoing, but in production Trusty is running on an ever-shrinking minority of our servers. As Trusty becomes more of an odd duck in production, it grows harder to support in Cloud Services as well. Right now we have no planned timeline for phasing out Trusty instances (there are 238 of them!) but in anticipation of that phase-out we'd like to discourage the addition of new Trusty hosts to the cloud. Step one[1] is to prevent people from creating new Trusty images unless they really, really need them. We would like to remove Trusty from the default available list of base images and make it available for new VMs only via special request on phabricator. The questions for you are: 1) Would that change make your life a lot harder? 2) If yes, can you name a date after which it /won't/ make your life harder? If the loss of Trusty doesn't worry you, feel free to ignore this email. In the event of a silent (or relatively quiet) response, I'll pull Trusty from the default image list sometime in the next few weeks. - Andrew (+ the rest of the Cloud team) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161899

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Downtime for select VMs next week, 2017-10-04
by Andrew Bogott 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

In order to rebuild a server of questionable stability, I'm going to move the following instances on Wednesday: |+--------------------------+---------------------+--------+|| ||| Name | Tenant ID | Status | || ||+--------------------------+---------------------+--------+|| ||| cindy | pluggableauth | ACTIVE | || ||| deployment-kafka-jumbo-1 | deployment-prep | ACTIVE | || ||| oidc-google | pluggableauth | ACTIVE | || ||| proton-staging | reading-web-staging | ACTIVE | || ||| search-jessie | search | ACTIVE | || ||| smtp-test1 | project-smtp | ACTIVE | || ||| suggestbot-prod | suggestbot | ACTIVE | || ||| twlight-prod | twl | ACTIVE | || ||| twlight-staging | twl | ACTIVE | |||| ||| wikibrain-embeddings-02 | wikibrain | ACTIVE | || ||| wikikids | wmam | ACTIVE | || ||| zim-proto | mobile | ACTIVE | || ||+--------------------------+---------------------+--------+| Migration will cause the affected instances to be offline for some time (potentially more than an hour depending on the size of the instance) and rebooted. If you need me work on your server at a particular time of day, or need a stay of execution, please let me know. Otherwise I'll start going down the list at the beginning of my workday on Wednesday, around 14:00 UTC. Sorry for the inconvenience! -Andrew

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Mailing lists renamed: labs-announce -> cloud-announce; labs-l -> cloud
by Bryan Davis 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

As you are hopfully aware, the Wikimedia Cloud Services team has been working for a while on rebranding things to make the services we offer and their importance to the Wikimedia movement more clear. [0] The latest step in this rebranding process is the renaming of our public mailing lists: * The low volume labs-announce list is now named cloud-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org * The general discussion labs-l list is now named cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org Making big changes to our mailman services is a bit scary because the Wikimedia movement uses its mailing lists constantly to keep people in contact with each other. To minimize the changes needed in mailman, we decided to do this list rebranding by creating new lists and copying the subscriber lists and other information over from the old lists. The old lists are now shut down which means they no longer accept and deliver messages. The archives of both historic lists are still available however: * https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-announce/ * https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/ The new list archives are at: * https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/ * https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud/ [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BryanDavis/Rebranding_Cloud_Servic… Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855

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