(Corrected the date in the subject line from the previous notification.)
Next Tuesday on September 3rd, between 13:00 and 14:00 UTC we'll be
performing backend database maintenance on the OpenStack VPS control plane.
During this maintenance window the Horizon web dashboard will be
unavailable and all VPS requests to create, modify or delete VPS resources
like virtual machines and DNS entries will be blocked.
Existing VPS virtual machines will remain running and Toolforge users will
not be affected by this maintenance.
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Wikimedia Cloud Services
Today I rebuilt the Docker images that are used by the `webservice
--backend=kubernetes` command. This is actually a normal thing that we
do periodically in Toolforge to ensure that security patches are
applied in the containers. This round of updates was a bit different
however in that it is the first time the Debian Jessie based images
have been rebuilt since the upstream Debian project removed the
'jessie-backports' apt repo.
Everything should be fine, but if you see weirdness when restarting a
webservice or other Kubernetes pod that looks like it could be related
to software in the Docker image please let myself or one of the
Toolforge admins know by either filing a Phabricator bug report or for
faster response joining the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel on Freenode
and sending a "!help ...." message to the channel explaining your
issue.
Bryan - on behalf of the Toolforge admins
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808
Next Tuesday on September 3rd, between 13:00 and 14:00 UTC we'll be
performing backend database maintenance on the OpenStack VPS control plane.
During this maintenance window the Horizon web dashboard will be
unavailable and all VPS requests to create, modify or delete VPS resources
like virtual machines and DNS entries will be unavailable.
Existing VPS virtual machines will remain running and Toolforge users will
not be affected by this maintenance.
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Wikimedia Cloud Services Team