Mozilla IT & Operations
This weekend, I rolled out a new LDAP infrastructure. Here are the details: The why: At Mozilla we depend heavily on our OpenLDAP-based[1] authentication system. As we’ve grown quite a bit over the past year or so, it has become apparent that our LDAP ecosystem wasn’t scaling accordingly. Until now, we’ve relied mostly on a… Read more
About 3 hours ago we updated the Mozilla Etherpad installation to a more current version. This has been in the works for almost a full year, and has finally come to fruition. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ Here’s a short list of the cool features we’re getting with this upgrade: More ports work. You can still connect to the… Read more
During a recent Mozilla all-hands event Laura Thomson held a short presentation, titled “Working with IT”. Laura was the right person to give it and the feedback that we have gathered is that we need to help people understand how to work with IT, and help you all understand how our infrastructure works. Expect more… Read more
A lot has been going on lately in IT, and we haven’t had a chance to make a post about it. I thought it was about time to get out an update about the team and what we’ve been working on. Personnel changes: For starters, the IT team has grown quite a bit since I… Read more
Recently we saw instability in one of our admin nodes. The hardware is a bit old so it is easy to throw that out as a cause. This is an HP DL360, 4th Generation (current is g7 with g8 right around the corner). Yet, blaming the hardware should be a last resort. Server problems are… Read more
Here at Mozilla, we have grown to thousands of servers in a short period of time (and even more individual instances when you count virtual machines). Like most other organizations, we have to rely on tools that help the sysadmins keep their sanity at such scale. We have picked Puppet as our tool of choice,… Read more
The Internet changed yesterday. Did you notice? If not, we did it right. Mozilla was one of hundreds of participants in World IPv6 Day, both “the largest experiment in Internet history” and “the nerdiest holiday ever“. Mozilla added IPv6 connectivity to the following sites: www.mozilla.org www.mozilla.com wiki.mozilla.org addons.mozilla.org In addition, we’ve been running IPv6 on… Read more
We will have a scheduled change window Tuesday, May 24 at 10pm PDT. The following changes will take place: 10:00pm PDT (0500 UTC) DNSSEC Deployment. Mozilla will start publishing the following signed zones: mozilla.com (bug 602424) mozilla.net (bug 602423) This is a continuation of the work we started last summer with mozilla.org. We will monitor… Read more
