[PDB Announce] PeeringDB 2.6.x release at 2018-01-17T0400Z on new infrastructure

[Eric Loos]

This is a pre-release announcement for the next PeeringDB beta release, which will be deployment on or around the 8th of January and the push to product of the beta on 17th of January at 0400Z, however next to the expected improvements to PeeringDB functionality, there also will be significant changes on the underlying infrastructure, as per Job Snijders for the PeeringDB Operations Committee:
As per Job Snijders for the PeeringDB Operations Committee:
"During the January 17th 2018 maintenance we intend to move the PeeringDB service from its current hosting location (NTT) to a cloud provider. This is one of multiple steps to improve PeeringDB resilience and availability.

A full cloudification of PeeringDB (with 'full' we mean a multi region deployment, leveraging web services where possible) proved to be too challenging for a single migration. The Ops team uncovered complexities related to (lack of) feature parity between IPv4 and IPv6 in various cloud services, and PDB's offering of non-HTTP based services such as finger & whois on the same DNS endpoints as the HTTP-related services.
We'll tackle those one by one in 2018.

During the January 17th maintenance, DNS records in the PeeringDB.{com,org,net} zones will be updated to point to a new set of IP addresses. The Ops team will ensure that at any given time there is only a single active instance (e.g. we'll shutdown the current instance, then migrate, and then enable the new instance). DNS TTLs are set to low values to ensure a smooth transition.

Also, the next beta release (scheduled for January 8th) will be deployed on infrastructure at the new hosting provider in order to test the new infrastructure prior to the production cut-over."

Your help in verifying that the framework upgrade went well by thoroughly testing https://beta.peeringdb.com would be greatly appreciated. Please review the changes and test against beta as necessary to prepare for the production roll out.

Preview is at: https://beta.peeringdb.com
The changes that were incorporated in this release can be found here: https://beta.peeringdb.com/changes

As always, let us know at support at peeringdb.com with any comments/questions/concerns.

Eric Loos on behalf of PeeringDB ProductCom