Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/MediaWiki on Kubernetes/Meeting notes/2021-03-24

2021-03-24

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

• Start thinking about deployment strategy for m8s, both for legacy deployments and the eventual k8s-only deployments
  • Not quite ready for a proposal but we'll be there soon
• Dan: I'll be out on paternity leave in early May for a few weeks. Who wants to take over as lead for this meeting? Dancy will lead.

General

Giuseppe out the next two weeks. Dancy out next week.

RelEng

• PipelineLib patch to support copying out of run containers to the local context
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/674404
• Include security patches in restricted image
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/674132

Question from Giuseppe:

• Does the pipelinelib build process ensure that the latest "latest" base images are used (i.e., always pull).?
  • Dan checked. Looks like docker build --pull is used.

Serviceops

• We have an initial chart for MediaWiki to use in production - still amply to test
  • Would be nice to progressively add pieces to allow running a local dev wiki with that chart
• All k8s clusters are now reinitialized and upgraded.
• shellbox chart under review