Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-03-05

2019-03-05

Last Time: 2019-02-26

Q4 Goals (2019-04-01--2019-07-01)

TEC3: Pipeline

• Conversion of services to use pipeline https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198901
  • ORES (finish)
  • tilerator
  • kartotherian
  • proton
  • recommendation-api
  • eventstreams (or does eventgate replace this?)
  • restbase?
    • Is this harder than we initially think?
    • TODO: Tyler consult with SRE on this.

TEC1: Reliability

• TEC1 for CI WG outcome implementation
  • TEC3: Pipeline compatibilty rewrite for future CI changes

TEC12: Developer Tooling/Productivity

• Running PHPUnit tests within the local development environment (local-charts or decendents)
• Standardized Docker images used for local development
  • Services: parsoid and restbase base images
  • "Official" Docker base image for (local development of) MediaWiki
• Documentation for New Developers™ for how to use local charts/developer tooling
• Stretch goal: MariaDB base image for local development of MediaWiki

Goals

• TEC3 .pipeline/config.yaml finalization
• TEC3 move ORES, (and other service TBD with SRE), through pipeline
• TEC3 pipeline compatibility for TEC1 changes
• TEC1 for CI WG outcome implementation
• TEC12: "Official" Docker base image for local development of MediaWiki
  • Sub/Stretch: MediaWiki localdevelopment MariaDB image to supplant the one available from DockerHub
• TEC12: Documentation for developer tooling for New Developers™

Helpful? Links

• Cassandra deployment on Kubernetes Cluster
  • https://github.com/IBM/Scalable-Cassandra-deployment-on-Kubernetes
  • "Cassandra is very particular about how its nodes are managed and very resource-demanding, so handling it in Kubernetes is not trivial." - https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/8v3kqc/anyone_have_put_cassandra_on_kubernetes/