Announcement: Fediverse Foundation infrastructure update 2023-08-12
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Type |
Maintenance |
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Summary |
Update of multiple server / infrastructure components |
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Impact |
Multiple downtimes of impacted services |
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Duration |
2023-08-12 19:00 - 2023-08-13 01:00 (CEST) |
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Status |
Success |
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Reporter(s) |
@b2c@wien.rocks |
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Responder(s) |
@fossie@wien.rocks, @b2c@wien.rocks |
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Internal reference |
n/a |
Introduction
Maintenance has to be conducted on multiple core infrastructure servers and components to apply necessary software, server, distribution, security and firmware updates. This will ensure continued stable and secure operation of the fediverse.foundation environment.
Service interruptions are to be expected due to multiple reboots of the impacted components.
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