Could you please explain a bit what is the floating IP for? Other than that, LGTM.

Could you please explain a bit what is the floating IP for? Other than that, LGTM.

I'd like to offer the Speed & Function folks a target for Ansible where they can install GitLab, test it externally, etc. (Separate from the existing stable gitlab-test.)

(We can repurpose the existing one, if need be. Just a bit more convenient not to have to shuffle it between a couple of use cases.)

But ansible is ssh-based. Can't they use the existing SSH workflows? (i.e, shared bastion hosts for SSH).

We don't have problems with the floating IP quota, just making sure other options have been considered first.

I have played a little with ansible and cloud VPS too, the only option I configured (not sure if it was needed though, it has been some time) was, in the ansible.cfg file:

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=30m

And have a properly configured ~/.ssh/config (something that allows ssh to connect without special options to the VMs).

After some discussion, I think we can probably get by with just the existing floating IP. The rationale in my mind was to be able to test a newly configured GitLab instance externally, potentially from third party tools like k6.io. But! It's only a few clicks in horizon to re-point things, and shouldn't be too much of a roadblock. We can revisit later if it does seem necessary.

Thanks!

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2021-03-26T10:02:22Z] <dcaro> Increased quota +1 instance, +4 cores, +8G ram (T278197)

Added the quota, let me know if you need more or you end up needed that extra floating ip :)
I'll close the task, cheers!