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Operations Portal Lightweight Release Process Cristina Aiftimiei EGI.eu www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Overview • Lightweight Release Management – why • Operations Portal Release Procedure – As it was – As it will be EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Lightweight Release Management – why? • Release Management: – Wikipedia: “release management is the process of managing software releases from development stage to software release – Ageless battle : Devel. does not understand Ops and Ops wishes Devel. would quit breaking production. Ø RM - it bridges the gap and reduces the paranoia of Ops, by using logical policies and reducing the uncertainty of a release and changes. Ø The key = transparency -> “what, when, why, and how” EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Lightweight Release Management – why? • Release Management: – 4 basic “things”: • Takes some existing code from somewhere • Builds the code into a test environment • Facilitates testing the code • Puts the code into production – Challenges – management of softw. defects, issues, risks, softw. change requests, softw. devel. requests (new features, functions) deployment/testing • All EGI’s Central Operations Tools, under JRA2, have well established development and release processes • “Lightweight Release Management” Ø We are trying to improve the management of .. the challenges Ø First volunteer – Operations Portal EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Operations Portal Release Procedure • Present process: – Code – on SVN • Ops Portal : https://svn.in2p3.fr/operations-portal/ • Access by svn + ssh for the access in write mode – Issues (bugs, features) addressed: • Team tracker - https://forge.in2p3.fr/projects/opsportaluser/issues • GGUS tickets • Various e-mails – Infrastructure: • 1 web development instance - https://operations-portal.in2p3.fr/test/frontend_test.php/ • 1 web pre-production instance - http://operations-portal.in2p3.fr/next/frontend_test.php/ • 1 test database • Several Instances of Lavoisier – Production - http://cclavoisier01.in2p3.fr:8080/lavoisier – test and preprod : cloud instances not reachable from outside. – One release is composed with one version of the web code and one version of Lavoisier configuration. EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Operations Portal Release Procedure • Release Procedure proposed changes – by the team – One release per month (next : 3.0.5 - September 20th) – Tested on test DB + preprod instance – Tested on GGUS test instance – 1 week for the test – List of features impacted • https://forge.in2p3.fr/rb/release/1 • Expectations: – Tests done by different users (ngi , site , vo users) – Bugs registered in the IN2P3 forge EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Operations Portal Release Procedure - Improvements • Goals: – Well tested Ops Portal releases – Changes aligned with users needs and expectations • Proposed Solution: – small testing/advisory team gathering representatives from: • RODs & site admins • EGI.eu - operations + user support • Security • VO managers – lightweight monthly meetings of TAG & devels • to discus next release (eventual priorities) & timelines for (beta) testing – testing of the release by the team • after Sept. release -> lightweight releases containing only bug fixing, small features -> testing should not take long, couple of weeks – All issues recorded in forge.in2p3.fr (by devels) • GGUS tkts or e-mail requests will also be copied/recorded EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu

Conclusions • Request for Participation to the TAG is open!!! – We will contact experts BUT please feel free to join if interested – First meeting – F2F at EGI’s Sept Conference EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu