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• Indeed the Toolserver migration was bumpy (maybe even unnecessarily so), and we did lose some tools along the way, but I think it's very clear that Toolforge and Cloud Services (then "Tool Labs" and "Wikimedia Labs" respectively) have become a huge improvement over the Toolserver and are continuing to get better. Legoktm (talk) 07:48, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
  • There is another migration currently underway from the Sun Grid Engine to Kubernetes. Here is a blog post describing the reasons for the migration. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

    For the only-minimally-curious, the TL;DR version of the blog link Bamyers99 provided is exactly what you'd probably expect if you're familiar with modern containerized service platforms: Toolforge already provides tool hosting via Kubernetes (as well as Grid Engine, both simultaneously, but separately (either/or) and with each platform having different features available to tool authors). Sun Grid Engine is ancient, outdated technology; hasn't released an update in 6 years; requires active, manual maintenance to continue functioning; and is dependent on other ancient, outdated technologies like NFS. Whereas Kubernetes has a rapidly-growing userbase; is being very actively developed; and is basically the current technology leader in the space. So, they're consolidating all of their eggs into the basket that doesn't have a Sun logo on it, and also happens to be superior in all ways that matter. FeRDNYC (talk) 15:47, 3 November 2022 (UTC)