Great work

Kudos to everyone involved!


On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 20:54, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2020-03-03, Brooke completed the automatic migration phase of the
> 2020 Kubernetes migration by moving the last workloads from the legacy
> Kubernetes cluster to the 2020 Kubernetes cluster [0].
>
> All Toolforge tools using `webservice --backend=kubernetes ...` and/or
> manually maintained Kubernetes objects are now running on the 2020
> Kubernetes cluster. The Toolforge admin team is in the process of
> tearing down the legacy cluster and cleaning up various documentation
> and tooling related to it [1].
>
> This project involved a lot of hard work that most of the Toolforge
> community did not see. Brooke and Arturo started planning things over
> a year ago [2] to ensure that the Toolforge admin team would be able
> to complete this migration with a minimum amount of disruption to
> tools and their maintainers. Along the journey they researched
> Kubernetes best practices and recommendations, read and re-read
> numerous tutorial and how-to docs, and designed a completely new
> process to automate the deployment of Kubernetes in Toolforge. They
> also sought and received help from other Toolforge admins, Wikimedia
> Foundation staff, and technical volunteers. This was a truly
> collaborative effort.
>
> I am very happy to say that in my opinion we have a well automated and
> monitored Kubernetes cluster in Toolforge today. There are many more
> features that we will continue to work on as we try to make Kubernetes
> use in Toolforge easier for everyone, but we can only do that work
> because we now have this solid base to build on. I look forward to
> announcements of many more features in the coming months.
>
> Thank you to our alpha and beta testers who found more edge cases and
> made good suggestions for simplifying things. Thank you all for your
> patience and understanding when things did not go quite as planned
> during this process. And finally thank you in advance for the edits
> that will be made to help pages on Wikitech and elsewhere as we all
> work on bug #1 (improving documentation).
>
>
> [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246519
> [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246689
> [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214513
>
> Bryan, on behalf of the Toolforge admin team and the Wikimedia Cloud
> Services team
> --
> Bryan Davis              Technical Engagement      Wikimedia Foundation
> Principal Software Engineer                               Boise, ID USA
> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]                                      irc: bd808
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