[Labs-l] [tools] [kubernetes] [node] NodeJS webservices on Kubernetes may need npm packages to be rebuilt

Fri Feb 10 09:01:22 UTC 2017

Many thanks for finding and fixing it!

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:50 PM Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Magnus ran into a problem with one of his tools [0] that may affect
> others as well.
>
> The version of Node used for WMF's production services running on
> Debian Jessie has been upgraded to v6.9.1 recently [1].  We also
> rebuilt the Docker base images that are used to run tools on
> Kubernetes on 2017-02-08 and subsequently restarted all of the
> Kubernetes tools to pick up the new containers and switch to a newer
> version of the Docker runtime [2].
>
> This Node version update may be incompatible with some npm installed
> packages built with the previous version of node. The fix for Magnus'
> tool was:
>
>   $ webservice stop
>   $ webservice --backend=kubernetes nodejs shell
>   $ cd www/js
>   $ mv node_modules node_modules-old
>   $ npm install
>   $ exit
>   $ webservice --backend=kubernetes nodejs start
>
>
>
> [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157678
> [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149331
> [2]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sal/log/AVocMWWhHQCSeVEJfJFA
>
> Bryan
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