Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Deployment pipeline/2019-11-27

2019-11-27

Last Time

• 2019-10-30
• Archive

General

• TechConf session
  • Actions:
    • Investigate how to approach the mediawiki thing.
    • Identify which parts of the Add a wiki process are related to the deployment pipeline
    • Integration tests support should be added.

• Upcoming migrations
  • EventStreams
  • Started toying at our offsite with the idea of doing Portals (QUESTION for SRE)
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238747
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/wikimedia/portals/+/552144/
  • Proton https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225680

• Docs for service idea to production
  • Product infra may have thoughts on this as well

TODOs from last time

• In progress TODO: support documention like the one tyler did for the portal and pipeline/helmfile and deployment
  • thcipriani started a thing: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment_pipeline
  • Could still use work: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment_pipeline/Migration

• TODO Lars & Dan pairing on pipelinelib docs!
  • https://doc.wikimedia.org/pipelinelib/
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment_pipeline/Components#PipelineLib
  • 2019-11-27: No progress, but not forgotten. Excuses: TechConf, offsite, thanksgiving, jet lag.

RelEng

• MediaWiki
  • Started thinking about the "deployable package" of MediaWiki necessary for Pipelinification
  • wikimedia/production.git
    • All branched extensions as submodules
  • Move production deployment from wmf/ of mwcore to wikimedia/production
  • Define variant Wikimedia production config in compiled, static files

As Always

• Release Pipeline Workboard
• Meeting notes