A quick summary of what I got up to at PTS 2026 in Vienna.
Test::Smoke's long-term future. I had several useful discussions with H. Merijn Brand (Tux) and Todd Rinaldo (toddr) about keeping Test::Smoke maintainable for the long term. This tied directly into the MetaCPAN hosting migration below: DigitalOcean offers managed Postgres, Hetzner doesn't, and Test::Smoke's existing database usage wasn't especially efficient. The outcome was toddr starting a rewrite that runs as a single container backed by SQLite and local files -- much more portable and easier to operate…
Following on from The bad days
We made the decision that our problems in Kubernetes were exactly the sort of thing that should not be distractions to the project. We had been trying to save costs when we choose Hetzner for hosting... especially as we did not know where our ElasticSearch cluster (needing 3x32Gig of ram) was going to live. The great news is last week ElasticSeach agreed to host this for us, which really is a game changer.
With this in mind, we reviewed hostin…
Following on from day 1
Joel and I spent some more time working out disk provisioning and then decided to upgrade the nodes in the cluster... this is where the problems started...
I shutdown a node to resize it... and the site went down, no healthy backends was then displayed to all users by Fastly (our CDN) for any content that wasn't in their cache. This is not meant to happen!
We also couldn't connect to Argo (web UI for Kuberneties deployment and a view on the K8's API status) or…
I am always flattered to be invited to the Perl Toolchain Summit, and reinvigorated in working on MetaCPAN each time.
Currently I am focused on building on the work I and others did last year in setting up Kubernetes for more of MetaCPAN (and other projects) to host on.
Last week I organised the Road map which was the first thing we ran through this morning. I was very fortunate to spend the day with Joel and between us we managed to setup:
- Hetzner (hosting company) v…
I'm at the Perl Toolchain Summit 2018 in Oslo for a few days working with the MetaCPAN team. This is the 10th year of the summit (although confusingly the 11th actual summit!), and the 3rd year I've been able to attend.
My focus for day 1 has been making MetaCPAN front end and API more resilient and also to put together a what to do if site down and Disaster Recovery plan (day 2 I will be testing that DR plan).
I've setup our 2…
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