Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-06-18

Last Time: 2019-06-11

Deployment Pipeline

Workboard

TODOs from Last Time

• N Not done thcipriani -- Pipeline image build cleanup for contint1001

• In progress thcipriani -- Base Blubber policy file for CI
  • blubber patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/blubber/+/516671/
  • deployment-charts patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/deployment-charts/+/517573/
  • still needed: blubber patch to bump blubber version -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218142

• N Not done thcipriani -- pipeline config validation
  • not this week for thcipriani

•  Done...ish Add/reserve a Jenkins node for the pipeline's trigger jobs
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/517111/
    • Needs serviceops review
  • maybe propose for puppet SWAT at some point -- which is at a very inconvenient time...i.e., right now and during the pipeline meeting :)

• thcipriani -- Kartotherian (map rendering / OSM) and Tilerator -- discuss with serviceops -- will do Thursday

• brennen writing an email to propose date for regular meeting w/doc writer
  •  Done (sort of) - asked if they could attend this meeting; they may make next week, but also evidently the contract is ending and unclear if it'll be renewed. (end of fiscal thing, maybe...)
  • TODO thcipriani for thursday meeting

Other Work

• Hide successful PipelineBot messages from wikibugs's feed, the same way we do for jenkins-bot
  • What's left? it's resolved, doesn't do what we thought
  • TODO make task for adding D-1/+2 or whatever voting in jenkins for PipelineBot

• Determine a standard way of installing MediaWiki lib/extension dependencies within containers
  • versions and load order (which isn't brought up)
  • TODO [???] to talk with greg about inviting folks to Wed. meeting

• contint1001 store docker images on separate partition or disk
  • Should we assign back to serviceops? Or is there puppet somewhere what can do a thing?
  • TODO thcipriani to ping someone

New CI

• Lars is updating the CI arch doc this week. Might be ready for Thursday's Pipeline meeting.

TODOs from Last Time

• https://wmf-gitlab3.vm.liw.fi/ - use it more or else!

Local Development

TODOs from Last Time

•  Done Mukunda to update Create an interface for the local-charts ecosystem with thoughts
  • Wails demo
    • Golang/vue.js webkit ui
    • wrapper that connects to local golang socket
    • wrap cli for local dev in simple web interface
    • plugins in a language agnostic way
    • "if we were going to choose one language, PHP probably makes sense"
    • future q1 work
    • TODO Jeena as tech lead to decide which language to use

Other Work

• In progress Porting from local-charts to deployment-charts ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224935 ):
  • Add restbase chart (port from local-charts)

• Antoine switching Ondrej Sury php7.2 -> serviceops php7.2
  • serviceops doesn't have php 7.1
  • There will be a php 8.0 -- when will that exist? will serviceops support it when developers start using it?