RedHat won't host this stuff for the project? On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Greg Sutcliffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > As of yesterday I received a mail from Rackspace stating that they are > ending the OSS discount program at the end of Dec. I have spoken to our > Rackspace Account Manager, and there's no offer of some other kind of > discount - we'll need to migrate the workload, or pay for the usage. > Given our heavy use of Rackspace, this is going to take some work to > mitigate. > > Many projects are affected by this (e.g. readthedocs[1]) and are > talking about it on Twitter - I'll be doing the same shortly. There's > already a number of companies offering to help (notably the Open Source > Labs [2]), and I'll be contacting them. However we need to decide what > to ask for. > > I don't believe we'll find a single sponsor to cover the whole $2k that > we spend at Rackspace each month. Currently on Rackspace we have: > > * The core infra - puppetmaster, Jenkins master, and web node > * The permanent Jenkins slaves - 9 of these (by far the largest cost) > * The temporary slaves spun up by BATS and then deleted > * The bandwidth used by the web node - Rackspace claim 6Tb / month, but > I struggle to prove that with my own stats > > I think each of these can be handled differently. > > Web node / traffic - Right now we have an offer of a sponsored CDN > which I'm trying to finalize, and (separately) and offer of a > mirror+bandwidth from someone else. I'm asking them to run the web node > for us (instead of just a mirror), and with the CDN that should be > acceptable bandwidth. > > Core Infra - I will ask Scaleway if we can increase our discount, and > host the Puppetmaster and Jenkins master there. We also have some > hosting with oVirt, that may be possible to increase. Failing that, OSL > or another new sponsor might be able to cover this. > > Temporary slaves - if we can find someone to donate some kind of cloud > account (AWS, GCE, Digitalocean, whatever) then this ought to be > fixable in our JJB config - Eric, do I have that right? > > Permanent slaves - this is the big one, we simply don't have the > compute power to replace all 9 Rackspace slaves at this time. We are > lucky in that a new slave requires no access to the rest of the infra > (inbound SSH only for the setup), so hopefully we can make a big push > for new sponsors or upgrading the ones we have. > > So, I will submit the application to OSL shortly ([3] if anyone else > needs it for another project), tweet out a request for help, and I will > speak to our existing sponsors about more capacity. In the mean time, > if anyone has any contacts or offers to make, let's hear it :) > > Greg > > [1] https://twitter.com/ericholscher/status/920396452307668992 > [2] https://twitter.com/osuosl/status/920491352634269696 > [3] http://osuosl.org/request-hosting/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "foreman-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
