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Yesterday afternoon we completed the last major blockers for
adoption of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://horizon.wikimedia.org">https://horizon.wikimedia.org</a> as the primary Labs
VM-administration tool. Starting today, Horizon should be your
tool of choice for:<br>
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<li> Creation, deletion, starting, stopping of labs instances</li>
<li> Management of instance firewalls (aka 'security groups')</li>
<li> Creation and assignment of web proxies for Labs instances</li>
<li> Assignment of floating IPs to labs instances</li>
<li> Manipulation of DNS records associated with floating IPs</li>
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Some of those workflows have already been removed from the
Wikitech interface; others will be removed in a few weeks after
they've had some time to settle in. In any case, I encourage all
labs project admins to enable 2fa today, and start using Horizon for
your day-to-day labs management. Accounts will continue to be
managed on Wikitech, and credentials are shared between Wikitech and
Horizon<br>
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Here is a FAQ, in progress, about the transition to Horizon and
changes in what we can and can't do with the new interface:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Horizon_FAQ">https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Horizon_FAQ</a>. Don't
hesitate to write to me with your questions so I can populate that
document with actual questions rather than imagined ones.<br>
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In addition to being generally prettier and more feature-rich,
Horizon should be somewhat easier to maintain and fix than the
existing OpenStackManager code running on Wikitech. Additionally,
Horizon is actively maintained by a team of full-time OpenStack
developers, so we'll get periodic updates and improvements from them
with a minimum of work on our part. That said, Horizon is a newish
tool, and our use case differs from the default OpenStack case, so
there will definitely be weird and unexpected behaviors. Please let
me know about these as soon as you find them so I can fix things or
file issues with the upstream developers.<br>
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Many thanks to Chris Steipp for writing our 2fa backend, and to
Alex Monk for jumping in at the last minute and building the proxy
dashboard that would otherwise have delayed this project by several
weeks.<br>
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-Andrew<br>
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