Deployment tooling/Cabal/2015-12-07

Topics

Big Things Poppin

• Development sprint

• Deployed AQS on Beta!
  • Puppet changes needed
  • restbase/deploy is hardcoded for ::restbase module
  • Changes needed for ::restbase module to use for AQS
  • Cassandra needs hiera changes

• Setup deployment from scratch in service-testbed
  • Just started
  • Encountered issues:
    • HTTP server on deployment host needed, and on port 80
    • creating the deploy-cache dir on target fails without editing /etc/sudoers/deploy-service

TODOs from last meeting

• MERGED Jinja template delimiters

Continuing TODOs

• pybal for testing in beta
  • Should be ready on beta for testing next week
  • Not going to be in production before January
  • Labs implementation not "working" but responds correctly

• Documentation Continues
  • Config deploy
  • --limit flag

• Binary file transport
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119443
  • Options:
    • git fat
      • Problems in the past
      • Not under active development
    • git lfs
      • no canonical server-side implementation
      • only http/https transport
    • git-annex
      • Joey Hess \o/
      • packaged
      • transport agnostic

• Need restarts via scap
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119449

As Always

• Workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/scap3/
• Etherpad backed up to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal
• Future document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Future
• Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MlEsFxrLvdZdV_G82WEAIvBXr7ArO7nCEKaFClHhJEw/edit#gid=0