Reference ticket from the upgrade to Buster: T252767: Move Archiva to Debian Buster
We currently run archiva.wikimedia.org on a single VM.
- archiva1002.wikimedia.org
The process last time was to create a new VM and run this as https://archiva-new.wikimedia.org and then run the two systems in parallel for a little bit, until we could switch and run the old system as https://archiva-old.wikimedia.org for a while.
The download page for Archiva (https://archiva.apache.org/download.cgi) still states that for the latest version (2.2.10) JDK version 1.8 is a requirement, but it's not 100% clear whether or not this is a minimum version, or whether Java 11 might be expected to work. This may play a part in determining whether we select bullseye or bookworm.
There are a couple of other open tickets relevant to Archiva, which may be relevant to the upgrade process and the strategy choosen:
- T317182: Move archiva to private IPs + CDN
- T273086: Downloading from Archiva.wikimedia.org is slower than Maven Central
I would expect that Data-Platform-SRE will be carrying out the work, but we need to make sure that everyone who uses Archiva knows about the change.