[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [Tools] Change default webservice release from precise to trusty

[Yuvi Panda]

Reminder: This is going to happen right now.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! Starting April 29 2015, any new lighttpd webservices started will
> default to Ubuntu trusty instead of ubuntu precise as is the case now. Note
> that none of the current webservices will be migrated by us - if you are
> running on precise now, it will continue running there until you migrate it
> yourself. Just new invocations of 'webservice start' or 'webservice restart'
> (without explicitly setting the --release parameter) is what will be
> changed. == What are the marjor differences? == 1. PHP 5.5 instead of PHP
> 5.3. This gives you access to a lot more features and better performance. If
> your code depends on bugs in PHP 5.3 to work properly, it might break when
> migrated. 2. Newer versions of packages in general. Newer is better, right?
> :) 3. Less breakages due to NFS. Trusty is in general better at being a nice
> NFS client than precise is, and needs a lot fewer restarts in general :) ==
> Does this mean I am now forced to use trusty even if I don't want to? ==
> Nope. If you want to keep using precise for new webservices / restarts, you
> can just use webservice --release precise <start|restart> instead. We do
> suggest you migrate, however - we're hoping to remove as many precise
> instances as possible over time, so this would be a good time to migrate. We
> offer plenty of support :) == So I want to migrate! How do I test? == Quite
> simple! Use: webservice --release trusty restart This will move your
> webservice to trusty (and newer version of PHP / whatnot). And if everything
> is ok, you can leave it as is :) If not you can move it back with:
> webservice --release precise restart And it'll be back on precise :)
> == Will you help me move my tool over to trusty? ==
>
> Sure! Just ask :)
> == I'm running a uwsgi-python / tomcat / nodejs tool. Should I care? ==
> Nope. Those are already running trusty == I'm running my bot on precise, not
> webservice. Will this affect me in any way? == Nope, although I would
> encourage you to migrate too :)



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