Catalyst/Updates/2024-11-01
< Catalyst
Introduction
Project Catalyst is a team working on a kubernetes cluster as a service explicitly for CI and and exploratory testing. Our current effort is upgrading Patch Demo, to use kubernetes to provision and host wikis with custom extensions and skins. The Catalyst API wraps a small kubernetes cluster. A new instance of PatchDemo will consume this API. Our next effort will be to open the Catalyst API for more general workloads include wikis which rely on (micro)services.
Update
- Status: On Track
- Progress update on the hypothesis for the week
- we are likely to announce public beta next week, this will involve:
- this was pushed back a week due to concern of available disk space
- we plan to send a wikitech-l email and update our wiki page
- the "use catalyst" checkbox will remain unchecked by default as we collect feedback
- work continued with onboard Abstract Wikipedia onto catalyst
- we have successfully deployed a wikifunctions environment onto catalyst
- we chatted with the AW team about some of the lower level risks and consideration (i.e. got into the weeds)
- started work on getting a better handle on our disk space
- phab:T378374 audit where we are spending disk space
- phab:T376272 refresh and garbage collect the repo-pool
- we are likely to announce public beta next week, this will involve:
- Any new metrics related to the hypothesis
- no
- Any emerging blockers or risks
- risk: we are running out of disk space (79% capacity) for our k3s k8s environment
- we are waiting on CloudVPS to respond to a quota increase request phab:T378231
- risk: we are running low on memory in our k3s k8s environment
- we have the quota to increase, and it is planned next week phab:T378749
- risk: we are running out of disk space (79% capacity) for our k3s k8s environment
- Any unresolved dependencies - do you depend on another team that hasn’t already given you what you need? Are you on the hook to give another team something you aren’t able to give right now?
- no
- Have there been any new lessons from the hypothesis?
- no
- Have there been any changes to the hypothesis scope or timeline?
- no