Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-08-13

2019-08-13

Last Time: [1] Goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2019-20_Q1#Release_Engineering

Deployment Pipeline

Workboard

GOALS

• Migrate restrouter
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223953
• (Stretch): MobileContentService
• (Stretch): Preparatory MediaWiki config clean-up & static loading work
  • Moving configuration to static configuration (e.g., json files rather than a bunch of PHP)

TODOs from Last Time

•  Done TODO Add a changelog/NEWS file to blubber

•  Done TODO triage pipeline project workboard
  • shuffled some things around some columns

New CI

GOALS

• POCs of GitLab, Argo, and Zuul3 systems; evaluate options
  • In progress Brennen ZuulV3 PoC
    • TODO: Brennen to record demo in some form this week

• PoC evaluation spreadsheet, first rough draft: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bLIWKRfq0-H9b3HSxuwAMb7cDFu71NS_Nhwy5trwSoo/edit#gid=0
  • Usable now if criteria require no changes.
  • Otherwise next week some time.
  • Suggestions for new attributes can be added to sheet.

• Document an implementable architecture for what we want in new CI ("CI architecture" document)
  • • 2019-08-13: Still in progress
    • 2019-08-20: No progress due to Wikimania

TODO thcipriani start email thread about critical path through evaluations given vacations

Local Development

GOALS

• Migrate local-charts to deployment-charts
• Instantiate testing and linting of helm charts
• Preliminary work on a CLI for setup/management

•  Done https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/local-charts/+/527860 patchset for parsoid chart

TODOs from Last Time

• mediawiki/core blubber
  • Add runs: {insecurely: true}

Other Work

• local-charts CLI
  • Mukunda has updated patchset
  • Ready for review!
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/local-charts/+/525563
  • Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/261693

• Restrouter stuff
  •  Done maybe Pchelolo would know
  • Difference between RESTBase and RESTRouter is in the configuration
    • RESTRouter chart is not very configurable