Hi all,As you might know, the Beta Cluster (aka deployment-prep)[0] hasn't had an official maintainer for a while, and as a result of that its infrastructure has accumulated a large amount of technical debt.
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/The Beta cluster currently tries to emulate the production MediaWiki cluster, but it doesn't have any official support from the SRE team[1][2]. The SRE team, on the other hand, has very different needs from a staging cluster than what Beta currently offers and what the MediaWiki developers need.
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215217#4965494 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215217#6665452I wrote a longer blog post on the subject[3], but I believe it's reasonable to conclude that we should start thinking on what might be used to provide replacements for Beta's current use cases, instead of thinking on how we can keep the current Beta alive in the long term.
[3]: https://taavi.wtf/posts/deployment-prep-needs-a-replacement/It's going to be a fairly large project which would need dedicated resources, but so would keeping Beta up to date with infrastructure changes (for example the MW-on-K8s project which will completely overhaul how MW is deployed and served).
Taavi
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