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Re: cflinuxfs2 --> cflinuxfs3 transition

Krannich, Bernd
 

Hi Elliott,

 

Nice to e-meet you and thank you very much for the pointer!

 

Finding out how to build the plugin, I created a PR adding this part to the readme: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/stack-auditor/pull/2

 

Additionally, I have tried the plugin on our biggest Cloud Foundry landscape and here is my feedback:

  • The plugin took a bit longer than 30 mins to collect the overall status of the system using `cf audit-stack` and an admin user. This is more a result of the size of our Cloud Foundry landscape. So, I guess even knowing about the plugin I’d still wish for a SQL join that I hope would give me the same overview with what I’d hope to be a much shorter runtime.
  • I think the plugin is still a nice self-service for individual org owners planning and executing a switch, so thank you very much for providing it!
  • Regarding the output, one use case I keep having for any such tool is to be able to dump things into a CSV so that I can analyze the data in Excel later on. Here, it would help if either the plugin would offer a special output format or offer an option to quote “nasty” things like orgs and spaces containing blanks.

 

I hope this helps as an additional input.

 

Thanks & Regards,

Bernd

 

From: <cf-dev@...> on behalf of Elliott Shanks <eshanks@...>
Reply-To: "cf-dev@..." <cf-dev@...>
Date: Thursday, 31. January 2019 at 16:08
To: "cf-dev@..." <cf-dev@...>
Subject: Re: [cf-dev] cflinuxfs2 --> cflinuxfs3 transition

 

Bernd,

 

My name is Elliott Shanks and I'm a new PM on the CF Core Buildpacks Team. We have recently introduced a cf-cli plugin called stack-auditor which would accomplish exactly what you are looking to do. It includes an audit command (audit-stack) to show all applications and their respective stacks as well as a command to change the stack (change-stack) of any particular app. You can download the plugin at:

 

 

Not only would I recommend this approach for your current needs, but would love to gather some feedback from you about the stack-auditor plugin after you have had a chance to use it. We are actively contributing to the plugin and would welcome any feedback in an attempt to make this a perfect tool for everyone who still needs to migrate applications over to cflinuxfs3.

 

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions while using the tool. I'd be happy to help.

 

Thanks a bunch,

Elliott Shanks

 

 

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:04 AM Krannich, Bernd <bernd.krannich@...> wrote:

Hi Josh, all,

 

I assume many people are currently in the process of moving off of cflinuxfs2 to cflinuxfs3.

 

I was trying to figure out a good (and quick) way to see which apps haven’t done the move yet. Looking into the Cloud Controller tables, I was hoping that the apps table would contain a reference to the stack or at least the buildpack table (which has a reference to the stack), but it seems like this is not how things work.

 

What are the additional Cloud Controller tables to consider when formulating a join to answer the question: Which apps are still on cflinuxfs2?

 

Thanks in advance,

Bernd

 

From: <cf-dev@...> on behalf of Josh Collins <jcollins@...>
Reply-To: "cf-dev@..." <cf-dev@...>
Date: Saturday, 3. November 2018 at 04:40
To: "cf-dev@..." <cf-dev@...>
Subject: [cf-dev] cflinuxfs2 --> cflinuxfs3 transition

 

Hi CF Community,

 

As of cf-deployment v6.0 (Nov 5, 2018) cf-d will deploy with support for both cflinuxfs2 and cflinuxfs3 stacks (with cflinuxfs2 continuing to be the default stack).

 

In cf-deployment v7.0, to be published early in December, cflinuxfs3 will become the default stack (cflinuxfs2 will continue to be supported, but will no longer be default).

 

Once cflinuxfs3 is the default, new apps that are pushed will be staged with cflinuxfs3 unless new apps that are pushed set the stack explicitly to cflinuxfs2. The stack property is “sticky,” so all existing apps will remain associated with cflinuxfs2 unless they are manually migrated to cflinuxfs3 (or deleted and re-created).

 

Both stacks will be supported for several months to allow app developers and operators time to migrate all apps from cflinuxfs2 to cflinuxfs3.

 

Canonical will cease support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) in April 2019. Therefore, at the end of March 2019, cflinuxfs2 will be removed from cf-deployment and all apps that haven’t been migrated will crash when the foundation is upgraded.

 

Thanks!

Josh Collins & Stephen Levine

 


 

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Respectfully, 

 

Elliott Shanks

Manager, Engineering
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