Welcome back to the weekly releng Friday update! Here’s what we’ve been up to this week.

Modernize infrastructure: Rob checked in code to integrate Windows with our AWS cloud-tools software so that we now have userdata for deploying spot instances (https://bugzil/la/1166448) as well as creating the golden AMI for those instances.

Mark checked in code to update our puppet-managed Windows machines with a newer version of mecurial, working around some installation oddities (https://bugzil.li/1170588).

Now that Windows 10 has been officially released, Q can more easily tackle the GPOs that configure our test machines, verifying which don’t need changes, and which will need an overhaul (https://bugzil.la/1185844). Callek is working to get buildbot setup on Windows 10 so we can start figuring out which suites are failing and engage developers for help.

Improve CI pipeline: With the last security blockers resolved and a few weeks of testing under his belt, Rail is planning to enable Funsize on mozilla-central next Tuesday (https://bugzil.la/1173452)

Release: Uplift starts next week, followed by the official go-to-build for Firefox 40. Beta 9 is out now.

Operational: Buildduty contractors started this week! Alin (aselagea) and Vlad (vladC) from Softvision are helping releng with buildduty tasks. Kim and Coop are trying to get them up-to-speed as quickly as possible. They’re finding lots of undocumented assumptions built into our existing release engineering documentation.

Dustin has migrated our celery backend for relengapi to mysql since we were seeing reliability issues on the rabbit cluster we had been using (https://bugzil.la/1185507).

Our intern, Anthony Miyaguchi, added database upgrade/downgrade ability to relengapi via alembic, making future schema changes painless. (https://github.com/mozilla/build-relengapi/pull/300)

Amy has finished replacing the two DeployStudio servers with newer hardware, OS, and deployment software, and we are now performing local Timemachine backups of the their data (https://bugzil.la/1186197). Offsite backups will follow once Bacula releases a new version of their software that correctly supports TLS 1.2.

The new Windows machines we setup last week are now in production, increasing capacity by 10 machines each in the Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 test pools (https://bugzil.la/1151591).

See you next week!

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