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

[Danmichaelo]

Thanks for making it super easy to switch back and forth!

My tool misses php5-mcrypt on trusty.

Dan Michael


On 29 April 2015 at 22:19, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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