Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Train development environment/2020-07-16

2020-07-16

As Always

• Meeting archive:  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Train_development_environment
• Last Time: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Train_development_environment/2020-07-02

TODOS

•  Done TODO: Lars to create image for other to try
•  Done TODO: Jeena to demo packer
•  Done TODO: thcipriani to set next meeting
•  Done TODO: Mukunda investigate cloud-init
•  Done TODO: Mukunda + Lars to sync up on building a deployment server (puppet, etc.)
•  Done TODO: Mukunda cloudinit to run puppet on vmdb2 image
  • Got cloud-init working with liw's base image (after adding the cloud-init package) and also using debian official image for openstack: https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/OpenStack/current-10/
•  Done TODO: Mukunda + Lars pairing
• TODO: Brennen to test Windows if possible
  • Declined: IMPOSSIBLE!
•  Done TODO: thcipriani make meeting weekly

Notes

 Done: Lars and Mukunda to pair on consolodating ongoing work

• VDC directory contains a README
• README lets you build env to run "scap prep"
• Next steps are automation of environment build
• Hopefully after automation iteration can go fairly quickly
• TODO: Goal: meeting in a week, produced an image that other people can *try*
• TODO: Brennen to try the instructions from the VDC directory
• TODO: Brennen to look into GitLab WMCS setup for playing with testing of the environment

Not done since changes were merged: Brennen and Jeena to review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/train-dev/+/606724