[Cloud] Network operations today 2022-04-06

2022-04-06 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
Hi there, Today 2022-04-06 we're performing some network maintenance operations on Cloud VPS that could affect all cloud egress/ingress traffic, including Toolforge. The cuts, if noticeable, should last a few minutes at most. Some operations were also conducted yesterday (without this email

[Cloud] Re: Kubernetes-based jobs engine -- how to use Python virtual environments?

2022-04-06 Thread AntiCompositeNumber
In general, if you are using a Python virtual environment on k8s, you should only modify it from a shell in a matching k8s container. The easiest way to do this is with `webservice --backend=kubernetes python3.9 shell` (or whatever version you are using). If the python version you're using matches

[Cloud] Re: Kubernetes-based jobs engine -- how to use Python virtual environments?

2022-04-06 Thread Roy Smith
I second that. I used to not worry too much about doing it right, but eventually got bitten by my sloppyness. The problem seems to be that the paths which get embedded in your venv executables will be different, which leads to hard-to-debug problems. > On Apr 6, 2022, at 10:12 AM, AntiCompos

[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Brief service outage for some VMs

2022-04-06 Thread Andrew Bogott
One of our hypervisors just lost power for a few minutes. It's back up now, and it's unclear (so far) what went wrong. A list of affected VMs follows -- all should be back and running now but each likely experienced a several-minute interruption in whatever hey were doing. No action should b