[Labs-announce] IMPORTANT: Security reboots everywhere tomorrow

[Andrew Bogott]

Good news:

I've now finished rebooting all the labvirt hosts, and the last few VMs 
should be in the process of spinning back up right now.

Bad news:

- We have a lot more (non-VM-hosting) servers to restart!  Expect brief 
outages in storage, horizon, wikitech, etc during the next few hours.

- Most VMs are still running insecure kernels.  I didn't upgrade them 
yet because it's not entirely clear that the current generation of 
security patches won't break random Java apps here and there.  Once 
there's a clear resolution to that issue there will be another round of 
reboots, which I will announce in advance.

- The restart process hit k8s nodes a bit harder than planned, so if 
your tools are running on Kubernetes you might want to verify that 
things are up and running properly.  If they aren't, a simple restart 
should resolve things.




On 6/21/17 8:56 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> Reminder:  These reboots will start in about 5 minutes.
>
> On 6/20/17 11:38 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
>> Good morning!
>>
>> In order to plug a newly-revealed security hole, we need to upgrade 
>> kernels everywhere and reboot everything.  I'll be doing this for all 
>> instances and VM hosts tomorrow, 2017-06-21, beginning at 14:00UTC 
>> (aka 7AM in San Francisco).
>>
>> Project admins should expect instances to be shut down for 10-15 
>> minutes and then restarted at some point tomorrow.  I don't expect 
>> the process to take absolutely all day, but it might.  If you have an 
>> instance that is a special case and you need it to be restarted 
>> during a more specific window, please respond to me directly with 
>> details about what you need and we'll try to make it happen.
>>
>> These reboots should have minimal impact on things running in Tools, 
>> although it's always good to keep an eye out -- some tools are unable 
>> to recover from a shift between nodes and need a manual restart.
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience!
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>>
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