We ran into issues with the cookbook / cumin before Gerrit instances were
switched over. All the changes have now been reverted and we'll try again
after investigating.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM Arnaud Bran <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> small reminder: we'll start in a few minutes
>
> Thank you for your understanding
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM Arnaud Bran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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