Godsend! *high five* Thank you + the rest of operations for your work on this.
~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:37 AM, 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 >
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