[Cloud] Networking incident today in CloudVPS (ferm update)

2019-09-30 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Hi, today 2019-09-30 we were doing an operation in all CloudVPS virtual machines to update ferm to fix a bug [0]. Ferm is a firewalling utility. The fleet-wide operation resulted in ferm being installed in every VM, even in those VMs not requiring it. This resulted in a network outage for most of

[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Cloud VPS users, please claim your projects

2019-09-30 Thread Andrew Bogott
Every year or so the Cloud Services team tries to identify and clean up unused projects and VMs.  We do this via an opt-in process: anyone can mark a project as 'in use,' and that project will be preserved for another year. I've created a wiki page the lists all existing projects, here: https