This is not currently possible. There is an outstanding request T311466 for the required docker image.

My apologies if this ticket comes as a surprise to you. In order to ensure WMCS can provide a stable, secure and supported platform, it’s important we migrate away from GridEngine. I want to assure you that while it is WMCS’s intention to shutdown GridEngine as outlined in the blog post https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/, a shutdown date for GridEngine has not yet been set. The goal of the migration is to migrate as many tools as possible onto kubernetes and ensure as smooth a transition as possible for everyone. Once the majority of tools have migrated, discussion on a shutdown date is more appropriate. See T314664: [infra] Decommission the Grid Engine infrastructure.

As noted in https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/16/toolforge-gridengine-debian-10-buster-migration/ some use cases are already supported by kubernetes and should be migrated. If your tool can migrate, please do plan a migration. Reach out if you need help or find you are blocked by missing features. Most of all, WMCS is here to support you.

However, it’s possible your tool needs a mixed runtime environment or some other features that aren't yet present in https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/18/toolforge-jobs-framework/. We’d love to hear of this or any other blocking issues so we can work with you once a migration path is ready. Thanks for your hard work as volunteers and help in this migration!

The tool contains scripts written in Perl; these should be okay for now, but I switched away from them when WMF started talking about OpenAuth, which the Perl MediaWiki::Bot does not support. These I can migrate right now.

Subsequently I wrote a whole new suite in C#. So the newer components (which run independently) use mono. However, my developer environment is Visual Studio 2022, so difficulties could ensue without an upgrade to the current version of mono.

I've updated four of the Perl jobs to run with the tf-perl532 image. If they run okay, I will convert the other jobs. But the C# jobs cannot be converted until a C# image is made available.

@Hawkeye7, thanks for migrating! I see you already linked T311466: Create a kubernetes container with mono and dotnet for the C# needs.

All my Perl jobs are now migrated to Kubernetes. That leaves only the four C# ones.

Thank you!!

Not working. exim does not seem to work inside kubernetes containers. So I am not being informed if there is a problem. May have to revert.

MIME::Lite is not installed on perl532-tf so no ability to send mail from that container

In T319893#8319182, @Hawkeye7 wrote:

MIME::Lite is not installed on perl532-tf so no ability to send mail from that container

You probably want to open a ticket to add https://packages.debian.org/buster/libmime-lite-perl to the image. It's probably just been missed off.

I've created a new feature suggestion T320904.

This is a reminder that the tool for which this ticket is created is still running on the Grid.
The grid is deprecated and all remaining tools need to migrate to Toolforge Kubernetes.

We've sent several emails to maintainers as we continue to make the move away from the Grid.
Many of the issues that have held users back from moving away from the Grid have been addressed in
the latest updates to Build Service. See: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/Changelog

You might find the following resources helpful in migrating your tool:

1. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Migrating_an_existing_tool
2. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service#Tutorials_for_popular_languages

Don't hesitate to reach out to us using this ticket or via any of our support channels

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Thank you!