All,
We will be upgrading our mysql1-vip MySQL cluster (mysql1/mysql2) Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 and Wednesday, May 31st, 2023. Both upgrades will take place between 20:00-24:00 UTC (1pm-5pm PDT). No or minimal downtime is expected, however the entirety of both maintenance windows is reserved.
Prior to the upgrades (~11am PDT), we will be running a backup of the cluster. We expect no downtime from this backup operation.
We are upgrading the operating system and configuration management on these two servers to AlmaLinux 8 and Chef respectively. The version of MySQL will not change.
If you are using the mysql1-vip cluster, please make sure you are using the mysql1-vip.osuosl.org address instead of mysql1/2.osuosl.org directly or outages will occur.
We have tested this upgrade in a separate environment and believe that it will have minimal impact to projects on the cluster. If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know. We’ll be in #osuosl on Libera Chat during the upgrade in case any one needs to contact us directly.
Thanks!
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Ethan Hampton
Student Systems Engineer
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab