Announcement: Fediverse Foundation infrastructure maintenance 2024-02-26

Type	MaintenanceData center maintenance
Summary	UpdateConstruction ofwork multiplein serverdata / infrastructure componentscenter
Impact	MultipleFull downtimesservice downtime of impactedall servicesinstances of the Fediverse Foundation
Duration	2023-08-122024-02-26 19:08:00 - 2023-08-132024-02-26 01:20:00 (CEST)
Status	SuccessPlanned
Reporter(s)	@b2c@wien.rocks
Responder(s)	@fossie@wien.rocks, @b2c@wien.rocksn/a
Internal reference	n/a

Introduction

MaintenanceConstruction haswork tois bebeing conductedperformed onat multipleour coredata infrastructurecenter serverslocation, and components to apply necessary software, server, distribution, security and firmware updates. Thiswhich will ensurecause continueda stableday-long andpower secureoutage.

operation

A service downtime of all instances of the fediverse.foundationFediverse environment.

Foundation

Service interruptions areis to be expected duefor tothis multiple reboots of the impacted components.day.

We apologize for any inconvenience!

 

Maintenance tasks

• Router firmware upgrade

• Configuration changes
  • Configure NICs on various virtual machines for IPv6 multicast
  • Misc. VM configuration changes (CPU/Memory allocation etc.)

• Distribution upgrade on all Debian-based servers
  
  • Upgrade all physical servers to Debian 12 'Bookworm'
  • Upgrade all virtual machines to Debian 12 'Bookworm'

• Update Openshift/OKD to 4.13

• Introduction of the Mastodon "Translate" feature (based on libretranslate)

• Update to Mastodon 4.2-beta1 on instance fedi.at