Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-05-14

Last Time: 2019-05-07

Deployment Pipeline

Workboard

•  Done Docs status
  • Gradle image works

• TODO make task for adding pipelinelib work in pipeline job
  • Dan licks cookie

• pipelinelib
  •  Done Code review

• N Not done Blubber policy file
  • Validators merged https://github.com/go-playground/validator/pull/459
  • Will need to update blubber with new version

• We don't deploy to staging currently in the pipeline
  • We should
  • Gets us close to CDep
  • Steps
    • Figure out access situation from contint1001
    • Add a helm install step as the last stage after image publish
    • How are deploying to staging currently?
    • If it's manual -- may want some config to control this

• CI arch doc
  • Feedback needed
  • Plans to make updates after discussion with archcomm
  • Post feedback and iteration ask for SRE feedback
  • Arbitrary deadline: Thursday

Local Development

• Folks travel to Hackathon within the next few days, we're prioritizing working images for local-charts.
  • Manually building a handful of images, need to get those published.
  • Under review: Add xdebug support; clean up environment variable, file names
  • Recently merged: Remove dev- prefix on images; tidy README, WMF key, Xdebug 
• dev-images - automated image publishing, most of this still pending:
  • What should we know about publishing images?
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/integration/config/+/master/fabfile.py#41
    • Add a similar fabfile.py to dev-images?  Yes.
      • Check manifests/site.pp - for checking out repo.
• .pipeline/blubber.yaml files
  • MediaWiki/core
    •  Done: Add James to review
  • Parsoid
•  Done: merge sshfs: add a script for generating and install ssh keys?