[Labs-l] Trusty now available in Tool Labs

[Legoktm]

Is there a way to use trusty for webservices? Using trusty with the grid
has been awesome so far.

Thanks,
-- Legoktm

On 10/14/14 2:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've now made a Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04) grid node available, as well as a
> Trusty bastion.
> 
> The latter can be accessed by ssh via trusty.tools.wmflabs.org
> 
> To send a job to a Trusty node, you need to request resource
> "release=trusty"; this can be accomplished by adding "-l release=trusty"
> to qsub or jsub invocation.  Note that, by default, "release=precise" is
> requested -- even from the trusty bastion.
> 
> At some point in the future, the default may switch to "release=trusty"
> so I would recommend that if your code relies on a specific release,
> that you always specify it explicitly.
> 
> There is only a single Trusty node at the moment, so it will probably
> reach capacity relatively quickly; as the number of tools requesting
> trusty increases, I'll add more nodes and start reducing the number of
> precise ones.
> 
> That said, I plan on keeping at least some precise instances around at
> least until it is no longer supported.
> 
> -- Marc
> 
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