So... they started earlier than expected as there was a miscommunication on the time. As such, maintenance is now happening! I'll send out a note when everything is finished.
-Andy- On 11/22/2016 11:58 AM, Andrew Grimberg wrote: > Greetings folks, > > This is just a reminder notice that this maintenance window is happening > this coming Saturday and to also note that it has been expanded by 1.5 > hours on the front end since there is a hardware issue that needs to be > addressed before the OpenStack upgrade happens. > > Times have been updated in the subject and original body accordingly. > > -Andy- > > On 11/09/2016 11:07 AM, Andrew Grimberg wrote: >> What: Rackspace will be performing an upgrade of OpenStack on the >> private cloud that OpenDaylight uses for CI. An entire environment >> shutdown will be needed due to the nature of the upgrade path >> >> When: November 26, 2016 (2016-11-26) from 10:30 - 18:00 PT (2016-11-26 >> 18:00 - 2016-11-27 01:00 UTC) >> >> Why: We're still early enough in the Carbon cycle and there are >> presently SRs that are scheduled right at that time that taking an >> extended outage shouldn't be a problem. Since the private cloud is >> presently running on the Kilo release of OpenStack it's time to start >> getting it updated to newer versions. >> >> Rackspace will be performing system level updates as well as upgrading >> OpenStack from Kilo to Liberty. An upgrade from Liberty to Mitaka will >> be scheduled at a later time >> >> Impact: Since our private cloud environment is so small it is not >> feasible to do a rolling cloud restart at this time. In particular, >> since we have systems that use cinder storage and our current cinder >> cluster is very small, we cannot do rolling upgrade / restarts on the >> storage nodes which means that any instances that are using that storage >> _must_ be turned off during the updates. Since the nodes that are the >> most strongly impacted are Gerrit, Nexus and Jenkins we're taking the >> advice of Rackspace and will be shutting down all CI services when >> Rackspace gets to the phase of the updates requiring system reboots. >> >> What the community will see during the window are some instability in >> getting to Gerrit as the hot updates are being applied. Eventually all >> services will be brought offline as the hardware gets rebooted. Jenkins >> will be placed into maintenance / shutdown mode near the start of the >> window so that any running jobs will have an opportunity to finish but >> new ones will not start. >> >> Notices will be sent to the mailing lists and to #opendaylight on >> Freenode at the start and end of the maintenance. >> >> -Andy- >> > -- Andrew J Grimberg Systems Administrator Release Engineering Team Lead The Linux Foundation
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