Managing Migrations

Migrations provide a method for replicating Silo software installations on new clusters. This supports quicker time-to-science by reducing the admin work required to create duplicate environments in ephemeral cloud situations.

Every software pull made by the user will be recorded in an "archive". This will detail what software version was installed from what silos and to which directories it was installed.

migration view

Show the state of the current migration archives and any others available to the system.

• --archive <archive> - Specify the archive to view instead of the currently enabled one

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration view

Archives:
┌──────────┬─────────┬───────────┐
│ Archive  │ Status  │ Host Silo │
├──────────┼─────────┼───────────┤
│ wooldbfe │ enabled │ Undefined │
└──────────┴─────────┴───────────┘

Enabled archive details:
┌──────────┬──────────┬─────────┬───────────────────────┬──────────┬────────────┐
│ Type     │ Name     │ Version │ Path                  │ Absolute │ Silo Name  │
├──────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
│ software │ OpenFOAM │ 22.12   │ ~/apps/OpenFOAM/22.12 │ false    │ openflight │
└──────────┴──────────┴─────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────┴────────────┘

migration apply

Apply a migration archive to the current system. This will attempt to install the software within the archive to the recorded destinations.

• --archive <archive> - Specify the archive ID to view instead of the currently enabled one
• --ignore-missing-item - Don't fail the apply if a silo, software package or version of a software package within the archive are not present
• --overwrite - Overwrite software locally if it already exists at the installation location

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration apply --archive qsaoxvxj
Validating Archive 'qsaoxvxj'...
Migration for archive 'qsaoxvxj' started...

Migrating software my-software 1.0.0...
'my-software' '1.0.0' successfully migrated


Migrating software my-software 2.0.0...
'my-software' '2.0.0' successfully migrated

Migration All Done √

migration continue

Resume monitoring of software pull actions.

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration continue
Migration Monitoring Enabled √

migration pause

Pause monitoring of software pull actions. After running this command any software installed with Silo will not be added to the currently enabled archive.

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration pause
Migration Monitoring Disabled √

migration pull <archive>

Retrieve updated archive details from a silo.

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration pull mysilo1
Obtaining silo migration archives...
Done √

migration push

Update remote silos with latest local archive information. Archives are pushed to their "Host Silo", those without "Host Silos" are uploaded to the default silo.

• --repo <silo> - Specify a silo other than the default to store the local-only archives in

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration push --repo mysilo1
Updating migration archives for Silo mysilo1...
All Done √

migration remove software <name> <version>

Remove a software item from the current archive.

• --archive <archive> - Remove from the specified archive instead of the current one.
• --all - Remove the software version from all archives

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration remove software OpenFOAM 22.12
Software 'OpenFOAM 22.12' migration record has been removed from archive 'wooldbfe'

migration switch

Change from the currently enabled archive to a new, empty archive.

• --archive <archive> - Instead of creating a new one, enable the specified archive

Example 1

[flight@gateway1 ~]$ flight silo migration switch
Enabled archive has been switched to 'debkxnfs'.