934660 - VM for etherpad testing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Virtualization, task)

Description

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Hi my new best friends. How is your day going? I hope it is well.

When you have a free moment could you please spin up a little VM for some etherpad migration testing? Something small, 1 core 2G ram and say 10G disk would be plenty. We can call it something like etherpadlight1.webapp.datacenter.love.my.app.com as you like.

Thanks a bunch for all your assistance here and have a great day :)

Comment 1

[Chris Knowles [:cknowles]]

Well, that name doesn't really fit with our conventions, primarily that I don't think we own the app.com domain.  :)

how about etherpadlight1.webapp.scl3.mozilla.com?  

And it should be up and running now.  :)

Host has been initially puppetized and minimal nagios has been applied, feel free to modify to fit your specific needs.

If you have any questions, let me know.

CJK

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Chris Knowles [:cknowles] from comment #1)
> Well, that name doesn't really fit with our conventions, primarily that I
> don't think we own the app.com domain.  :)
> 
> how about etherpadlight1.webapp.scl3.mozilla.com?  
> 
> And it should be up and running now.  :)
> 
> Host has been initially puppetized and minimal nagios has been applied, feel
> free to modify to fit your specific needs.
> 
> If you have any questions, let me know.
> 
> CJK

Can I get access to it please? :) ([e-mail])

root access (sudo is fine) would be great too.

Comment 3

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

This is on my list, I might have time early next week to get it puppetized. I have it in line after the l10n one but can reverse the order if you would like this one done first.

Comment 4

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Jason Crowe [:jd] from comment #3)
> This is on my list, I might have time early next week to get it puppetized.
> I have it in line after the l10n one but can reverse the order if you would
> like this one done first.

l10n first WFM thanks!

Comment 5

[Chris Knowles [:cknowles]]

Actually, worked with limed, you should have access as soon as the next puppet run goes through.  

CJK

Comment 6

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

Thanks, but you should take care to not get things set up in a way that we have the same issue as with the l10n VM. In other words if you give access to folks before the basic filesystem is set up through puppet then we have to migrate the data in order to get it into puppet. This takes additional time in the end. This gets real dicey once devs install things like Apache or MySql without using puppet.

Comment 7

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Jason Crowe [:jd] from comment #6)
> Thanks, but you should take care to not get things set up in a way that we
> have the same issue as with the l10n VM. In other words if you give access
> to folks before the basic filesystem is set up through puppet then we have
> to migrate the data in order to get it into puppet. This takes additional
> time in the end. This gets real dicey once devs install things like Apache
> or MySql without using puppet.

OK I will keep my grubby mitts off of it for now :) The need for the etherpad VM is for doing migration testing (from the old etherpad MySQL DB into a new PostgreSQL DB), but we might as well set it up right.

For dev/prod, we are planning on using PaaS (stackato).

Comment 8

[Jason Crowe [:jd]]

I see. If you can say with reasonable certainty that you will not need anything on this VM maintained by us and will not need any additional parts puppetized than I have no problem with you going wild. My only concern is to avoid a situation where my team needs to spend a bunch of time doing archeology and migrating to make it maintainable in our standard way. If this is not something you will ever need then the concern is moot.