Beta Cluster/status

Last update on: 2012-05-monthly

2012-05-10
Chris, Sam, Antoine, Faidon, and Ryan met in San Francisco the week of May 7 to bootstrap work on this project. Current focus is getting media handling working smoothly.

2012-05-15
As of May 15th: 
 * Apaches instances have been build 100% using puppet classes, the old one will be removed. All queries (thumbs/regular text/bits) hits the applications apaches, upload.beta.wmflabs.org pointing to the IP address shared by all wikis.
 * MediaWiki logging is fine.
 * Blocker: /home/wikipedia needs a decent place with lot of disk space to host MediaWiki checkouts, MediaWiki logs and syslogs.
 * Blocker: no syslog-server yet, since it conflicts with a base class which is always installed.
 * MediaWiki configuration files in progress of being merged from prod to labs.

2012-05-20
Project is now a bit more on par with production status. 
 * A job runner has been setup, currently catching up with all the pending jobs. Apparently, that includes some video resizing for TimeMediaHandler.
 * All code has been updated to a recent version and all databases have been upgraded.
 * Uploading file should work again (as of May 17th)

2012-05-monthly
Chris McMahon, Sam Reed, Antoine Musso, Faidon Liambotis, and Ryan Lane met in San Francisco the week of May 7 to bootstrap work on this project, kickstarting a process of aligning the configuration with our production cluster. Apache web server instances are now completely configured automatically using puppet classes. A few key Wikimedia configuration files that were previously managed via private Subversion repository are now managed in a public Git repository. Much work remains to make this a stable testing environment, which will continue in June. 