Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q1/checkin-07-28

30 (ish) day checkin on Q1 goals

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/releng-201516-q1/

[Quarterly Success Metric] Jenkins: Run jobs in disposable VMs

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499

• boot instances from OpenStack API
  • labnodepool is pretty much done. Going to be reimaged from scratch. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107158
  • still missing the image to boot from (goal: end of week-ish?)
• subset of jobs run in disposable VM (not isolated)
  • after Antoine's vacation
• Bug 1/Task 2001
  • For now just some notes at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nodepool

Gerrit Migration stage 1

• Prototype CI integration with Differential
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103127
  • TODO: Mukunda and Antoine to pair or something this week

• Allow cloning of Phabricator hosted git repositories
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128
  • Completely working on HTTPS.
  • SSH a WIP, Chase was working on this last week
    • Cloning of SVN requires SSH, Phab doesn't support HTTP(S) + SVN

Create or improve the RESTBase deploy method (tracking)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102667

Seemingly on track at this point Not drowning!

• A new workflow for RESTBase is deployed (task T102667 is complete)
  • Created reasonable replacement method via scap
  • Working on wrapping ansible to hide ansible :)
  • Goal to have systems to evaluate (roughly) by next week

• All items in Deployment_tooling/Future#Future_Requirements completed
  • Continually evaluating approaches
  • Fill out evaluation of tools, further refine best approach
  • https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1MlEsFxrLvdZdV_G82WEAIvBXr7ArO7nCEKaFClHhJEw/edit?usp=sharing