Page MenuHomePhabricator

Switchover s6 master (db2229 -> db2214)
Closed, ResolvedPublic

Description

When: During a pre-defined DBA maintenance windows

Affected wikis:: https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist

Checklist:

NEW primary: db2214
OLD primary: db2229

  • Check configuration differences between new and old primary:
sudo pt-config-diff --defaults-file /root/.my.cnf h=db2229.codfw.wmnet h=db2214.codfw.wmnet

Failover prep:

  • Silence alerts on all hosts:
sudo cookbook sre.hosts.downtime --hours 1 -r "Primary switchover s6 T430964" 'A:db-section-s6'
  • Set NEW primary with weight 0
sudo dbctl instance db2214 set-weight 0
sudo dbctl config commit -m "Set db2214 with weight 0 T430964"
  • Topology changes, move all replicas under NEW primary, open orchestartor to monitor the process and check it at the end.
sudo db-switchover --timeout=25 --replicating-master --read-only-master --only-slave-move db2229 db2214
  • Disable puppet on both nodes
sudo cumin 'db2229* or db2214*' 'disable-puppet "primary switchover T430964"'
  • Merge gerrit puppet change to promote NEW primary: FIXME
ssh puppetserver1001.eqiad.wmnet
sudo puppet-merge

Failover:

  • Log the failover:
!log Starting s6 codfw failover from db2229 to db2214 - T430964
  • Switch primaries:
sudo db-switchover --replicating-master --read-only-master --skip-slave-move db2229 db2214
echo "===== db2229 (OLD)"; sudo db-mysql db2229 -e 'show slave status\G'
echo "===== db2214 (NEW)"; sudo db-mysql db2214 -e 'show slave status\G'
  • Promote NEW primary in dbctl
sudo dbctl --scope codfw section s6 set-master db2214
sudo dbctl config commit -m "Promote db2214 to s6 primary T430964"
  • Clean up heartbeat table(s).
sudo db-mysql db2214 heartbeat -e "delete from heartbeat where file like 'db2229%';"
  • Restart puppet on both hosts:
sudo cumin 'db2229* or db2214*' 'run-puppet-agent -e "primary switchover T430964"'

Clean up tasks:

  • change events for query killer:
curl -sS 'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/software/+/refs/heads/master/dbtools/events_coredb_master.sql?format=TEXT' | base64 -d | sudo db-mysql db2214
curl -sS 'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/software/+/refs/heads/master/dbtools/events_coredb_slave.sql?format=TEXT' | base64 -d | sudo db-mysql db2229
  • Update candidate primary dbctl and orchestrator notes
sudo dbctl instance db2229 set-candidate-master --section s6 true
sudo dbctl instance db2214 set-candidate-master --section s6 false
sudo cumin 'dborch*' 'orchestrator-client -c untag -i db2214 --tag name=candidate'
sudo cumin 'dborch*' 'orchestrator-client -c tag -i db2229 --tag name=candidate'
sudo db-mysql db1215 zarcillo -e "select * from masters where section = 's6';"
  • Depool db2229 for maintenance.
sudo dbctl instance db2229 depool
sudo dbctl config commit -m "Depool db2229 T430964"
  • Change db2229 weight to mimic the previous weight db2214:
sudo dbctl instance db2229 edit
  • Apply outstanding schema changes to db2229 (if any)
  • Slowly repool the db2229 if ready
sudo cookbook sre.mysql.pool -t T430964 -r "Repooling after switchover" db2229
  • Update/resolve this ticket.

Details

Due Date
Jul 19 2026, 12:00 AM
Related Changes in Gerrit:

Event Timeline

Change #1307148 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit maintenance bot; author: Gerrit maintenance bot):

[operations/puppet@production] mariadb: Promote db2214 to s6 master

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1307148

CWilliams-WMF set Due Date to Jul 19 2026, 12:00 AM.
CWilliams-WMF moved this task from Triage to Ready on the DBA board.
CWilliams-WMF changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 21 2026, 8:19 AM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-21T08:45:37Z] <cwilliams@cumin1003> DONE (PASS) - Cookbook sre.hosts.downtime (exit_code=0) for 1:00:00 on 22 hosts with reason: Primary switchover s6 T430964

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-21T08:46:14Z] <cwilliams@cumin1003> dbctl commit (dc=all): 'Set db2214 with weight 0 T430964', diff saved to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P94946 and previous config saved to /var/cache/conftool/dbconfig/20260721-084613-cwilliams.json

Change #1307148 merged by CWilliams:

[operations/puppet@production] mariadb: Promote db2214 to s6 master

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1307148

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-21T08:53:35Z] <cezmunsta> Starting s6 codfw failover from db2229 to db2214 - T430964

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-21T08:54:43Z] <cwilliams@cumin1003> dbctl commit (dc=all): 'Promote db2214 to s6 primary T430964', diff saved to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P94947 and previous config saved to /var/cache/conftool/dbconfig/20260721-085442-cwilliams.json

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-07-21T08:57:25Z] <cwilliams@cumin1003> dbctl commit (dc=all): 'Depool db2229 T430964', diff saved to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P94948 and previous config saved to /var/cache/conftool/dbconfig/20260721-085724-cwilliams.json

CWilliams-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

Just to note that the resolve-cache alert fired off after this, yet the resolved hostname was an FQDN:

cumin2024@db1215.eqiad.wmnet[orchestrator]> select * from hostname_resolve where hostname <> resolved_hostname;
+----------+--------------------+---------------------+
| hostname | resolved_hostname  | resolved_timestamp  |
+----------+--------------------+---------------------+
| db2214   | db2214.codfw.wmnet | 2026-07-21 09:03:15 |
| db2229   | db2229.codfw.wmnet | 2026-07-21 09:03:15 |
+----------+--------------------+---------------------+
2 rows in set (0.001 sec)