[Labs-l] Reminder: OpenStack Nova upgrade scheduled for Monday, August 27

Thu Aug 23 23:51:26 UTC 2012

Fixing the subject...

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is still planned to go forward on Monday. There's a possibility
> of extended downtime during a number of the parts of the process.
> We'll try to minimize downtime, though.
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, an update: we'll be pushing this back a week to Monday Aug 27th.
>> We've made good progress, but testing isn't totally complete. Rolling
>> back the upgrade will be very difficult, so we want to do a decent
>> amount of testing. So far we've completed the following:
>>
>> 1. Updated puppet configs to support diablo and essex, and multiple regions
>> 2. Updated OpenStackManager to support:
>>     * Nova API
>>     * Essex release of OpenStack
>>     * Multi-regions
>> 3. Brought up the eqiad region to test Essex
>> 4. Installed MediaWiki with new OpenStackManager in eqiad for testing
>>
>> What still needs to be done:
>>
>> 1. Full testing of OpenStackManager against a production like environment
>> 2. Full infrastructure testing of OpenStack Essex in a production like
>> environment
>>
>> - Ryan
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> We're planning on upgrading OpenStack Nova on Monday August 20th.
>>> We'll try to keep downtime to a minimum, but it's possible that there
>>> will be extended downtime during the upgrade. Our deployment window
>>> will be from 10:00 - 18:00 PDT. The schedule for this is ambitious, as
>>> we may not be ready to upgrade by this date. If we are not ready,
>>> we'll push the window to the following week (August 27th, same time).
>>>
>>> During this deployment window, we'll try to keep instances
>>> operational, however, all OpenStack services will be down. This means
>>> labsconsole access will be limited, and many instance actions won't be
>>> available.
>>>
>>> Please do *not* reboot instances during this deployment window. Since
>>> the nova-network service will be down, it's possible that rebooting an
>>> instance will cause it to be down until the entire upgrade is
>>> complete.
>>>
>>> - Ryan
>>>
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