Deployment tooling/Cabal/2015-10-26

Topics

• Etherpad times!

Deploy on Beta

• Last Wednesday beta-cluster deploy: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal/RESTBase_Beta_deploy

Tasks created

• Independent lock file:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116208
• Checks.yaml optional: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116204
  • couldn't repro the error locally but Mukunda showed a problem with duplicate config vars that is likely the root cause
• `/mnt/srv/deployment` vs `/srv/deployment` bad assumption: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116207
• Puppet refactor: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116606

Questions

• Rollback prompt SHA1—possible? Dan?
  • if we send the .done link sha back via structured logging at the onset
• Config file ownership—discussed Wednesday w/Dan/Mukunda/Tyler
  • TODO: make bug for ^
• Scap dependencies (netifaces, requests)

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Documentation

• DONE `scap/scap.cfg`
• TODO config_deploy
• TODO logging
• TODO checks
• TODO setting up scap from scratch
• TODO ^ Make bugs for
  • Project bootstrapping script or at least an example project template repo
•  Done QUESTION Focus on documentation post-this code review round?
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap3

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• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D20
  • Mukunda and Tyler talked about it Friday
  • Some concerns about extra port-range being opened
  • Changes vs. Benefits
    • benefits might include better security of local patches if we tunnel local port access over ssh connection and more efficient git server if we ran a smart git server instead of simple http
  • Skip this step, jump to more VCS-agnostic deploy (e.g., https://github.com/russss/Herd / https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys-using-bittorrent)
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/turnip
  • https://github.com/dvdotsenko/git_http_backend.py

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