Cool. Thanks for the update Andrew!

- J


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Turns out most of you don't have accounts on bast1001.  Working on it,
> trying to find someone in ops to review that change now.  Stay tuned...
>
>
>
> On Apr 4, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I get a key error when I try to ssh into bast1001. Where can I upload my
> rsa key?
>
> - J
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Maryana Pinchuk 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Andrew!
>>
>> A bunch of us non-engineer interlopers who have stat1 accounts (aka,
>> most of the Product team) use a GUI called Sequel Pro to ssh in. I
>> gave it the old college try (...that is, about 5 minutes of poking
>> around in settings), but I couldn't figure out how to update the
>> host/proxy per your instructions. I'm also fairly sure none of us have
>> accounts on bastion... Anybody in the office who knows what's up care
>> to help those of us who are tragically unhip to the command line? :)
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Just in case this is news to you:  WMF is in the process of shutting
>> down
>> > our Tampa datacenter.  The stat1 server that you know and love is in
>> Tampa,
>> > and will be shutdown along with the rest of most of Tampa in a couple of
>> > weeks.  stat1003 is a new replacement server for stat1 in our Ashburn
>> > datacenter.
>> >
>> > stat1003.wikimedia.org is up and running now!  Over the last week we
>> did an
>> > audit of user accounts on stat1.  We wanted to trim down the list of
>> users
>> > that had access to ones that actually used that access.  (The complete
>> list
>> > of migrated accoutns is in this etherpad:
>> > http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/stat1_accounts, under the 'Keep'
>> heading.)
>> >
>> > For the most part, everything will be the same on stat1003 as it was on
>> > stat1.  Home directories have been rsynced over (as of April 3), and /a
>> has
>> > been fully rsynced over as well (as of April 2nd).  I will rsync /a
>> again
>> > once last time before stat1 is to be decommissioned.  Crontabs have also
>> > been migrated, so any cronjobs you had on stat1 are now also running on
>> > stat1003.
>> >
>> >
>> > There are a very few differences:
>> >
>> > - stat1003.wikimedia.org is the new hostname.
>> > If there is a desire for a stat1 redirect/cname to stat1003, let me
>> know.  I
>> > don't plan on setting one up otherwise.
>> >
>> > - stat1003 does not allow direct ssh.
>> > You must use bastion hosts (bast1001.wikimedia.org) to ssh in.  Add the
>> > following to your .ssh/config file to do this:
>> >
>> >   Host stat1003.wikimedia.org
>> >   ProxyCommand ssh -e none bast1001.wikimedia.org exec nc -w 3600 %h %p
>> >
>> > This will fail if you don't have an account on bast1001.  You should
>> have
>> > one!  If this doesn't work for you, let me know and we will fix that
>> asap.
>> >
>> > - /a has been renamed to /srv
>> > We are trying to use /srv rather than /a on all new servers, in order to
>> > keep more in line with Linux FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.  I
>> have set
>> > up a symlink from /a -> /srv on stat1003, so if you have scripts that
>> rely
>> > on the the /a absolute path, they should continue to work on stat1003
>> > without modification.
>> >
>> > - Firewall!
>> > stat1003 still has a public IP, but it also has pretty restrictive
>> firewall
>> > rules in place.  If you need access to a service on stat1003, please
>> submit
>> > an RT ticket to open a hole in this firewall.  This will allow us to be
>> more
>> > careful about what is running on stat1003 accessible to the outside
>> world.
>> >
>> >
>> > Tampa will be shut down soon, and I need time to let you all migrate,
>> and
>> > also time enough to decommission stat1 before everything is turned off.
>> > Please make sure stat1003 works for you and everything is as it should
>> be
>> > before Friday April 11th.  After that date I plan to shutdown stat1.
>> >
>> > Thanks!  Don't hesitate to let me know if you need any help.
>> >
>> > -Andrew Otto
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Andrew Otto <[email protected]>
>> > Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:19 PM
>> > Subject: stat1 account audit
>> > To: Analytics List <[email protected]>, Development and
>> > Operations Engineers <[email protected]>, matanya
>> > <[email protected]>, Operations Engineers <[email protected]>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > We will soon be migrating everything on stat1 over to a new server in
>> eqiad:
>> > stat1003.  For the most part, data, accounts and cronjobs will be copied
>> > over exactly as they are.  However, stat1 has been around for a while,
>> and
>> > there are quite a few accounts on there, may of which are probably not
>> used.
>> > We're doing a little audit to see which accounts we don't need to
>> migrate to
>> > the new server.
>> >
>> > I've pasted a list of names below that we are not sure about.  None of
>> these
>> > users have logged in in the last few weeks at least.
>> >
>> > If you see a name there and you know that it SHOULD DEFINITELY have an
>> > account on the new stat1003 server, please let me know via a reply by
>> > Tuesday April 1.
>> >
>> > See also: https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6789
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > -Andrew Otto
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
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