> If all goes perfectly, Wikitech will be restored to its original state
but be slightly slower.

Could you explain this a bit more? Is this due to the new role data storage
backend? How much of a slowdown should we expect?

Thanks,
Negative24

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:54 AM Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Executive summary:
>
>      CI tests won't run for a while tomorrow.  Also you won't be able to
> log into Wikitech.  This will begin at 16:00 UTC (8:00 AM in California)
> and may take a couple of hours.
>
> Full story:
>
>      As part of a long-overdue tech-debt payment[0], I'll be migrating
> all of the Labs project, membership and role data from ldap into
> mysql[1].  Keystone (the Labs Openstack authentication layer) will be
> shut off briefly, and subsequently will have incomplete data while
> things are gradually copied over from Ldap.
>      At the same time, Alex will be rolling out a bunch of
> OpenStackManager patches[2] to cope with the new reality.  I've tested
> these quite a lot, but no doubt there will be unexpected issues with
> such a big refactor.
>
>      Existing, running labs and tools sessions should not be affected.
> New instance creation will be disabled for part of the window, which
> will prevent CI from starting new tests.  Wikitech login will be
> disabled, and users will have to login afresh after logins are restored.
>
>      There is, unfortunately, no user-facing improvement associated with
> this update.  If all goes perfectly, Wikitech will be restored to its
> original state but be slightly slower.  If, after the update, anyone
> encounters new Wikitech issues (and I emphasize the NEW), please open a
> phab ticket and inform me immediately.
>
>      As always, in the worst case scenario you can refer to our doc site
> of last resort, https://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org
>
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115029
> [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_keystone_roles
> [2] The patchset begins with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/252615/
>
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