On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 2:38 PM Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> As previously announced on this list [0][1] we are in the process of
> replacing the old Ubuntu Trusty instances in Toolforge with fancy new
> Debian Stretch instances.
>
> This process is reaching its next major milestone on Monday
> 2019-03-25. During the general US workday on that date (14:00-00:00
> UTC) the Toolforge admin team will be dismantling the legacy Ubuntu
> Trusty job grid. Any tools that have not migrated to either the
> Stretch grid or the Kubernetes cluster at that point will be forcibly
> shutdown. Nothing will be deleted in the tools' $HOME directories, but
> any Trusty grid jobs will be stopped. Any crontab file remaining on
> the
> old grid's cron server will be archived as
> "$HOME/crontab.trusty.save". Maintainers who somehow missed all of the
> announcements will be able to login and restart their tools on the
> Stretch grid or Kubernetes.
>
> See <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation>
> for additional information and tips on common problems that have been
> found thus far.
>
> [0]: 
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-January/000122.html
> [1]: 
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-March/000142.html

The steps of shutting down the Trusty grid are starting now.

As documented above, the remaining crontab files will be archived to
each tool's $HOME directory to make restoring function for tools which
have not migrated yet easier.

Bryan
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Bryan Davis              Wikimedia Foundation    <bd...@wikimedia.org>
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement    Boise, ID USA
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