Deploy
Overview
Section titled “Overview”The “deploy” fleet runs the rails application and is used to facilitate execution of deployment related tasks such as database migrations. These nodes do not handle customer facing traffic, however, are required by the deployment pipelines.
Lead Time
Section titled “Lead Time”Lead time for patching these systems should be minimal, as long as the time is agreed upon with release managers. Deployments will need to be blocked for the duration of the maintenance.
System Identification
Section titled “System Identification”Knife query to locate relevant systems:
knife search node 'role:gprd-base-deploy-node*' -iProcess
Section titled “Process”See Linux Patching Overview for generic processes applied to all Linux systems.
- Notify release managers that deployments will need to be paused.
- Block deployments with a C2 change issue and appropriate labels.
- Update apt packages and reboot the nodes.
- Remove deployment blocks by closing the change issue.
Ideal Commands
Section titled “Ideal Commands”sudo apt-mark hold gitlab-eesudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade --yessudo apt-mark unhold gitlab-eesudo reboot
Additional Automation Tooling
Section titled “Additional Automation Tooling”None currently exists