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: Toolforge: Decomission 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!

@Dvorapa: Is this assignment intentionally?

Thank you, @Multichill.

Thanks @Multichill. Anyway, I check periodically every 3-6 months if the transition is possible, but there are still some issues with K8s and it waits for them to be resolved.

If I remember correctly, last time I tried there was git not working properly in K8s, which is a blocker for both Pywikibot and DvorapaBot

Last time in May 7th. Result:

toolforge-bullseye-standalone based pod
line 6: git: command not found

toolforge-bullseye-sssd based pod
line 6: git: error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory
line 6: git: fatal: unable to fork

Also there is gzip missing (Pywikibot needs that as well)