As previously announced on this list [0][1] we are in the process of replacing the old Ubuntu Trusty instances in Toolforge with fancy new Debian Stretch instances.
This process is reaching its next major milestone on Monday 2019-03-25. During the general US workday on that date (14:00-00:00 UTC) the Toolforge admin team will be dismantling the legacy Ubuntu Trusty job grid. Any tools that have not migrated to either the Stretch grid or the Kubernetes cluster at that point will be forcibly shutdown. Nothing will be deleted in the tools' $HOME directories, but any Trusty grid jobs will be stopped. Any crontab file remaining on the old grid's cron server will be archived as "$HOME/crontab.trusty.save". Maintainers who somehow missed all of the announcements will be able to login and restart their tools on the Stretch grid or Kubernetes.
See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation for additional information and tips on common problems that have been found thus far.
[0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-January/000122.htm... [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-March/000142.html
Bryan, on behalf of the Toolforge admin team
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:38 PM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
As previously announced on this list [0][1] we are in the process of replacing the old Ubuntu Trusty instances in Toolforge with fancy new Debian Stretch instances.
This process is reaching its next major milestone on Monday 2019-03-25. During the general US workday on that date (14:00-00:00 UTC) the Toolforge admin team will be dismantling the legacy Ubuntu Trusty job grid. Any tools that have not migrated to either the Stretch grid or the Kubernetes cluster at that point will be forcibly shutdown. Nothing will be deleted in the tools' $HOME directories, but any Trusty grid jobs will be stopped. Any crontab file remaining on the old grid's cron server will be archived as "$HOME/crontab.trusty.save". Maintainers who somehow missed all of the announcements will be able to login and restart their tools on the Stretch grid or Kubernetes.
See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation for additional information and tips on common problems that have been found thus far.
The steps of shutting down the Trusty grid are starting now.
As documented above, the remaining crontab files will be archived to each tool's $HOME directory to make restoring function for tools which have not migrated yet easier.
Bryan