Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/MediaWiki on Kubernetes/Meeting notes/2020-12-16

2020-12-16

Always

• Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/MediaWiki_on_Kubernetes
• Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/MediaWiki_on_Kubernetes
• Workboard
• IRC: #mediawiki-mw-on-k8s ^connect

TODOs from last time

• RelEng: Outline model for security patch application and deployment
  • There was discussion about having a private registry, but when is that pushed to?

RelEng

• Ahmon has prototyped an initContainer based l18n cache building thing
  • flock works across pods on the same node
• Two patches landed in integration/pipelinelib
  • User-defined build context and excludes https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/647058
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/648320

Serviceops

• Kubernetes staging cluster in codfw up and running. Most stuff deployed there already for testing, various stuff failing, working on it.
  • It does include a new docker version along a ton of other things.

Platform Engineering

• shellbox continues
• schedule a meeting early in new quarter to discuss https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263166