<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The grid has Trusty nodes and qsub/jsub supports specifying the OS of the<div>execution node.</div><div><br></div><div>Webservices also run on the grid I think, so while the webservice cli utility</div><div>itself might not have it as a built-in parameter, I imagine one could already</div><div>make it execute on a Trusty node.</div><div><br></div><div>Hm.. there are 'webgrid' nodes as well. I'm not sure whether it's required</div><div>for tools web proxy to work that the webservice on those nodes. If so, we'll</div><div>have to wait for Trusty-based webgrid nodes first.</div><div><div><br></div><div>+1 on this. Would be nice to use e.g. newer php for web-facing scripts.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 26 Nov 2014, at 18:07, Legoktm <<a href="mailto:legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com">legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Is there a way to use trusty for webservices? Using trusty with the grid<br>has been awesome so far.<br><br>Thanks,<br>-- Legoktm<br><br>On 10/14/14 2:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hey all,<br><br>I've now made a Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04) grid node available, as well as a<br>Trusty bastion.<br><br>The latter can be accessed by ssh via <a href="http://trusty.tools.wmflabs.org">trusty.tools.wmflabs.org</a><br><br>To send a job to a Trusty node, you need to request resource<br>"release=trusty"; this can be accomplished by adding "-l release=trusty"<br>to qsub or jsub invocation. Note that, by default, "release=precise" is<br>requested -- even from the trusty bastion.<br><br>At some point in the future, the default may switch to "release=trusty"<br>so I would recommend that if your code relies on a specific release,<br>that you always specify it explicitly.<br><br>There is only a single Trusty node at the moment, so it will probably<br>reach capacity relatively quickly; as the number of tools requesting<br>trusty increases, I'll add more nodes and start reducing the number of<br>precise ones.<br><br>That said, I plan on keeping at least some precise instances around at<br>least until it is no longer supported.<br><br>-- Marc<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Labs-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l<br><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Labs-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>