On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM Reuven Lazarus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Foreachwiki and friends are available in the Kubernetes container now, > with a flag on the way to make it easy to invoke them via mwscript-k8s. ( > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378479) We've also resolved the > resource-consumption issues with the shell loop approach, so that option is > viable too. > Woohoo! Thanks! :D > (That is, simultaneously launching that number of jobs will no longer > overload the Kubernetes infrastructure itself; of course it's still > possible to use up the available compute resources, and it's also possible > -- as ever -- for aggressive maintenance scripts to overload shared > resources like the databases. But it's back on the table; consider it > remediated from the temporary guidance "don't do this, it's dangerous" to > the indefinite guidance "this is powerful, do it cautiously.") > *nods seriously* > Interactive scripts like eval.php can be used with mwscript-k8s in > --attach mode (which forwards stdin and stdout to your terminal). ( > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_scripts#Input_on_stdin) > Separately, note there's also mw-debug-repl to get a shell in a mw-debug > pod, rather than a mw-script one. ( > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_On_Kubernetes#MediaWiki_REPL > ) > *success kid meme* yay! Eval lives. :D > That said, mwscript-k8s can't support {my,}sql.php specifically, because > we don't have a mysql client in the MW image and shouldn't add one. For > now, you can run `sql` from the deploy hosts instead of the mwmaint hosts. > The long-term replacement probably won't be a maintenance script at all but > a dbconfig-aware wrapper around a local mysql client. ( > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375910) > Awesome, that works fine for my needs. Thanks! -- brooke
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