Wikimedia Cloud Services team/EnhancementProposals/Decision record T332191 subdomain for new cloud private subnets
Origin task: phab:T332191
Date of the decision: 2023-04-05
No decision meeting needed, people commenting in the task:
- User:David_Caro
- User:FNegri
- Andrew
- Arturo
Decision taken
Option 3bis:
Use <vlan-shortname>.<dc>.wikimedia.cloud
.
Examples:
cloudcontrol1003.private.eqiad.wikimedia.cloud
cloudlb2001-dev.private.codfw.wikimedia.cloud
Note: originally was option 2, but when implementing, decided to go with 3bis.
This is documented at Portal:Cloud_VPS/Admin/DNS.
Problem
As part of the latest project on network isolation, there are new per-rack VLANs subnets allocated called cloud-private
. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324992#8671971.
The data is copied here for reference:
> >"supernet": 172.20.0.0/16 > >|Vlan Name|Vlan ID|Subnet| >|-------------|---------|--------| >|cloud-private-c8-eqiad|1151|172.20.1.0/24| >|cloud-private-d5-eqiad|1152|172.20.2.0/24| >|cloud-private-e4-eqiad|1153|172.20.3.0/24| >|cloud-private-f4-eqiad|1154|172.20.4.0/24| >|cloud-private-b1-codfw|2151|172.20.5.0/24|
These new IP addresses will be allocated and assigned per physical hardware host, in parallel to the traditional `10.x.y.z` addresses that we know and love for ssh/puppet/management, etc. The `10.x.y.z` addresses use the `<datacenter>.wmnet` naming, but since these new addresses are considered natively cloud realm (even though not virtual), we won't be using `wmnet`.
This decision request is to decide on the subdomain to use for them.
Our current ""policy"" for domain names is at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS/Admin/DNS, which should be updated with the results of this decision. As of today, the policy suggests that the domain we should use is `wikimedia.cloud`, because it replaced `eqiad.wmflabs` which was the cloud counterpart to `eqiad.wmnet`.
Constraints and risks
- Make sure whatever domain we use makes it clear that they are HW servers and not virtual machines.
- This wont be really exposed to end-users/customers, so we have a bit more freedom to pick one option and have second thoughts a couple of years later.
- We already have some precedents in `enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud` FQDNs. They use the `svc` subdomain. Such subdomain is not very fitted for this case since these aren't service IP addresses.
- The chosen subdomain must be hosted by wikiland DNS servers to avoid chicken-egg problems (the domain being unavailable because the cloud being down, but the config of some core cloud service relying on the FQDNs for startup)
Options
Option 1
Use `<dc>.wikimedia.cloud`.
Examples:
- `cloudcontrol1003.eqiad.wikimedia.cloud`
- `cloudlb2001-dev.codfw.wikimedia.cloud`
Pros:
- simple and straight forward 'mirror' of the `<dc>.wmnet` scheme.
Cons:
- in some cases may be too similar to VM FQDNs, like `whatever.project.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud`.
Option 2
Use `<dc>.hw.wikimedia.cloud`.
Examples:
- `cloudcontrol1003.eqiad.hw.wikimedia.cloud`
- `cloudlb2001-dev.codfw.hw.wikimedia.cloud`
Pros:
- Explicit `hw` keyword (meaning: hardware), should help clearly identify this is an IP in hardware and not on a virtual machine.
Cons:
- Slightly longer to type.
Option 3
Use `<vlan>.wikimedia.cloud`
Examples:
- `cloudcontrol1003.cloud-private-c8-eqiad.wikimedia.cloud`
- `cloudlb2001-dev.cloud-private-b1-codfw.wikimedia.cloud`
Pros:
- Extra clear what this is about, as it hardcodes in an explicit fashion the DC, the rack and the vlan name.
Cons:
- Long and complex to type.
- If a host is relocated into a different rack, the FQDN will need to be updated, making them less time-stable than other options.
Option 3bis
Use `<vlan-shortname>.<dc>.wikimedia.cloud`
Examples:
- `cloudcontrol1003.private.eqiad.wikimedia.cloud`
- `cloudlb2001-dev.private.codfw.wikimedia.cloud`
Pros:
- Extra clear what this is about, as it hardcodes in an explicit fashion the DC, and the vlan [short] name.
Cons:
- none!