The documentation (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Grid) says that the only release available to jsub is Trusty. It also says we shouldn't run our jobs on Kubernetes ( https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Kubernetes).
Can you clarify how we should run our jobs? Thanks On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> wrote: > Tool-forge users can ignore this email, it only concerns VPS project > owners. > > Long ago, the Wikimedia Operations team made the decision to phase out > use of Ubuntu servers in favor of Debian. It's a long, slow process that > is still ongoing, but in production Trusty is running on an ever-shrinking > minority of our servers. > > As Trusty becomes more of an odd duck in production, it grows harder > to support in Cloud Services as well. Right now we have no planned > timeline for phasing out Trusty instances (there are 238 of them!) but in > anticipation of that phase-out we'd like to discourage the addition of new > Trusty hosts to the cloud. > > Step one[1] is to prevent people from creating new Trusty images > unless they really, really need them. We would like to remove Trusty from > the default available list of base images and make it available for new VMs > only via special request on phabricator. The questions for you are: > > 1) Would that change make your life a lot harder? > 2) If yes, can you name a date after which it /won't/ make your life > harder? > > If the loss of Trusty doesn't worry you, feel free to ignore this > email. In the event of a silent (or relatively quiet) response, I'll pull > Trusty from the default image list sometime in the next few weeks. > > > - Andrew (+ the rest of the Cloud team) > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161899 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services announce mailing list > [email protected] (formerly > [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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