60 Seconds with Mozilla IT – May 6
mrz
From the May 6 weekly Project Meeting: Sometimes Mozilla IT shows a different side and brings Mozilla to the classroom.
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60 Seconds with Mozilla IT – April 29
cshields
From the April 29 weekly Project Meeting: hg push server had an issue last week, failover to a redundant push node happened with little impact Details: the way hg is setup there is a single server for changes over ssh … Continue reading
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Computing Skills Boot Camp
Sheeri
Software Carpentry is running a 2-day software skills boot camp in Boston, June 24-25th 2013, for women in science, engineering, medicine, and related research areas. Registration is $20. Boot camps alternate short tutorials with hands-on practical exercises. You are taught … Continue reading
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT – April 22
mrz
From the April 22 weekly Project Meeting: Ever wonder what Mozilla IT is or what we do? We keep the lights on. We’re like your landlord – when the roof blows off, the ceiling leaks or the outside needs repainting, … Continue reading
DevOpsDays Paris 2013 re-cap
phrawzty
I recently helped organise the inaugural Paris edition of the popular DevOpsDays series of conferences. It was a great event, and I’d like to share some of my thoughts and observations here. The DevOpsDays series of events is, as the … Continue reading
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT – April 15
mrz
From the April 15 weekly Project Meeting: A glace into 2013 Q2 We’re building a NOC. Working with Taos on building a 24×7 Network Operartions Center to support high-availability web properties and services such as Marketplace, Persona and product downloads … Continue reading
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT – April 8
mrz
Every Monday Mozilla holds its weekly Project Meeting. For the past three weeks Mozilla IT has been sharing 60 Seconds with Mozilla IT. We’ll be cross-posting those notes here. From April 8: 2013 Q1 Review, in 3 bullet points Rolled … Continue reading
Improving FTP Cluster Availability
jakem
Over the last several months we’ve had intermittent trouble with our FTP cluster that powers ftp.mozilla.org, as well as acting as the origin host for the primary product delivery CDNs, download.cdn.mozilla.net. Despite the name, the vast majority of the traffic … Continue reading
Mozpool – Provisioning Pandas
dmitchell
With Mozilla’s increasingly exciting ventures into the world of mobile computing, we need to expand the pool of hardware available for continuous integration testing. While some tests can run on emulators using x86-based servers, other tests need to be run … Continue reading
Our talk at PuppetConf 2012
jabba
Here is a video of our talk at PuppetConf 2012, where we describe a little about our puppet infrastructure and how we’ve scaled to over 1200 nodes managed fully by puppet. Notes: Our puppetctl tool is available here: https://github.com/mozilla-it/puppetctl Our … Continue reading