Awesome! Great job :)
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've just removed the "(testing)" from the labs Trusty image. That image > should now be safe and reliable for most uses. If you don't care about > Ruby, Rails, or Puppet, then feel free to dive in! Otherwise, read on... > > Puppet: > > At the moment, default Trusty VMs run the same version of Puppet as the > old Precise images. So, no surprises there. In some cases puppet classes > that work just fine on Precise may malfunction due to mismatched Trusty > package versions. I haven't seen a lot of those cases so far, but it's > something to be wary of. > > Role::Puppet::Self: > > At the moment this doesn't work on Trusty at all. Trusty wants to > install puppet master version 3, which causes a great dependency cascade > which ultimately threatens to uninstall the puppet client and break > everything. We're working on a couple of possible solutions to this, but in > the meantime you should just avoid using Trusty as a puppetmaster or a > puppet test box. > > Ruby, Rails, etc: > > Our default Trusty VMs come standard with Ruby installed. It is, > however, a forwarded-ported version that is /not/ standard for Trusty. That > means that if you install anything that depends on Ruby then apt will try to > upgrade your Ruby version which will break a bunch of things, including > puppet, and probably result in the box being unusable. So... when > installing packages keep an eye out for such warnings. > > In not all that long (a month or so, perhaps?) we'll be upgrading all of > our infrastructure to puppet 3, in which case all of these version-conflict > issues should be neatly resolved. At that point I'll also switch Trusty > over to the default base image; until then I still regard Precise as the > safe choice. > > > If you encounter any difficulties with this image outside of the above, > I'd like to hear about them! Please respond to this thread with details. > > -Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
