Hello,

We will perform maintenance on Gerrit on *Monday, October 6*, from *12:00
to 13:00 UTC*.
During this window, we expect a *~20 minutes* write outage while we switch
over Gerrit's service from the current primary (gerrit1003) to the spare
host (gerrit2003).
Since last time, we've added a few guardrails:

   -

   Local emergency backup on each instance.
   -

   All instances will be *read-only during the switchover *to protect data
   integrity.
   -

   Pre- and post-switch checks to verify everything is in the expected
   state.

As before, we’ll perform the switchover *live with Release Engineering*.

This operation will allow us to unblock a few things:

   -

   System daemon user: *gerrit2 → gerrit (*T338470
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338470>)
   -

   *OS upgrade* (T392464 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392464>,
   T384595 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384595>)*, Java* (T392465
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392465>) version update and *Gerrit *
   (T379714 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379714>, T392448
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392448>) version update

*Expected impact*

   -

   A ~20 minutes *read-only* window; reads (browsing, cloning, reviewing)
   should remain fine.  Pushes, votes, comments, etc. will be blocked during
   that period
   -

   We’ll post start/end updates during the window.

*Links*

   -

   Documentation:
   https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gerrit/Operations#Switch_over
   -

   Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387833
   -

   Deployment Calendar:
   https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20251006T1200


Thank you for your understanding.

--
*Arnaud Bran* (he/him)
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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