title: TPA-RFC-54: build-x86-05 and build-x86-06 retirement affected users: Jenkins build boxes users deadline: 7 days status: obsolete discussion: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/29974
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Summary: old Jenkins build boxes are getting retired
Background
As part of the moly retirement (tpo/tpa/team#29974), we need to
retire or migrate the build-x86-05 and build-x86-06 machines.
Another VM on moly, fallax was somewhat moved into the new Ganeti
cluster (gnt-dal), but we're actually having trouble putting it in
production as it's refusing to convert into a proper DRBD node. We
might have to rebuild fallax from scratch.
No one has logged into build-x86-05 in over 2 years according to
last(1). build-x86-06 was used more recently by weasel, once in February
and January but before that in July.
Proposal
Retire the build-x86-05 and build-x86-06 machines.
It's unclear if we'd be able to easily import the build boxes in the new cluster, so it seems better to retire the build boxes than fight the process to try to import them.
It seems like, anyways, whatever purpose those boxes serve would be better served by (reproducible!) CI jobs. Alternatively, if we do want to have such a service, it seems to me easier to rebuild them from scratch.
Deadline
The VMs have already been halted and the retirement procedure started. They will be deleted from moly in 7 days and their backups removed in 30 days.