I'm sorry, I simply don't have the time to wade through this all. What's the difference between a project and an instance? I don't know, I just want to put some PHP files up and connect them to a database. And what's a puppet group? And a sudo group? And how many servers do I need to just replicate the Toolserver? Which project should I choose?
This is still far too complicated for anyone without some sort of computer science degree. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > <Tron>Greetings, Programs!</Tron> > > So, not many updates for a while, as things have been progressing at a > fair clip in the "oh, my god boring gruntwork" front. > > The biggest news is the addition of Petr Bena to the tools project > sysadmin team as its first volunteer. Petr has been very involved in > the setup and administration of the Tool Labs' predecessor projects, and > will continue to steer the bots project where the rules are a little > more relaxed to facilitate more experimental development. > > He's also joining me on the tools project proper, to help provide > support to maintainers over a wider range of times, and to increase > availability of sysadmins. You can find him hanging around > #wikimedia-labs, often at times where I am not available. > > There is some documentation-in-progress that give a lot of information > on how to set up your tools on the Labs architecture at: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Help > > Please don't hesitate to comment if you see missing information, or if > parts of it are less clear than idea. > > On the other fronts, the wikitech management interface is now in place > for self-serve of tool account creation by Labs users; this requires > moving already-existing tool accounts to the new scheme, and a brief > outage for that purpose later this week (see note below) > > Experiments with a bulletproof replacement for gluster are well on their > way; with NFS from a highly redundant server as the currently favored > option. With a bit of luck, I'll use the opportunity given by the > outage for the tool account switchover to move the shared tools > filesystem to NFS as a trial run. > > The database replication is also well on its way; you can find the > current roadmap at: > > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Database_plan > > === Planned outage === > > In order to move the extant tool accounts to the new, final scheme, and > (progress permitting) move the shared filesystems to a new storage > server, there will be a brief outage of the Tool Labs infrastructure > this Thursday April 11 starting at 16:00 UTC. The outage is expected to > last 20 minutes during which service will be intermittently unavailable. > > Announcements will be sent by email, on IRC and on the servers 30 > minutes before the start of maintenance, at its start, and upon completion. > > > Impact: > > * Jobs running on the grid engine will be stopped then restarted > automatically at the end of the maintenance window. If you are running > a job that cannot or should not be restarted automatically without > intervention from its maintainers, please make certain that it has been > stopped before the start of the maintenance window; > * The login server will be restarted during the window, ending active > sessions; > * The web service will be intermittently unavailable; and > * Running processes not scheduled through the grid engine will be killed. > > Recovery plan: > > In case of unplanned failure during the maintenance window, > configuration will be rolled back to the current version and a new > window will be planned after postmortem. Disruption of services will > take place as noted and an announcement will be sent. > > > -- Marc > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >
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