tl;dr: We're about to disable self-service creation of Debian Jessie VMs.  To request an exception, open a Phabricator ticket specifying your need and reasons.

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We're close to polishing off the last few Ubuntu Trusty VMs in the cloud, which means it's time to start thinking about the upcoming deprecation of Debian Jessie.

WMCS (and the WMF in general) will continue to support use of Jessie well into 2020, so no immediate action is needed on the part of current Jessie users.  On the other hand, any /new/ work should definitely happen on Stretch in order to postpone the inevitable OS-motivated rebuilds as long as possible.  In order to encourage that, we're going to disable creation of new Jessie VMs in the next few days

If you believe that you are a special case and need a Jessie VM anyway, please open a phabricator ticket explaining your reasons and specifying name and flavor for the VM to be created, and WMCS staff will make it for you.

For reference, the phabricator ticket about this change is: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218119

-Andrew + the WMCS team

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