info_tfgrid/collections/collaboration/release_process.md

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Release Process

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Github projects

  • We are going to use new github style projects to manage the development process, all repos are linked against tfgrid product e.g 3.6.0
  • You can have different views e.g StoryCards only view for Highlever overview, a view by repositories, priorities
  • We will drive all repos from that one project
  • We should use milestones (semantic version to sort out the issues)

Releasing the Grid

Environments

  • Grid releases are no longer linked to an environment in a pipeline, while this makes sense in lots of scenarios, it won't scale
  • An environment hosts a specific grid version based on the components it has
  • In the future, we should be able to create ephermal environments e.g deploy this grid version on these X number of nodes

Versions

  • Releasing should follow semantic versioning
  • Every grid release is linked to X number of components. For example, TFGrid 3.6.1 is linked to terraform 1.0.0, portal 2.0.1, .. etc

Branching/Tagging

  • As mentioned above, releases should should follow semantic versioning. The tag itself is prefixed with a v. so vx.y.z or vx.y.z-rc1
  • Devnet(s) should host development branches and once it reaches a specific quality they get verified on that branch
    • THIS IS NOT TRUE: it can be that on a dev net you have production components
  • Once verification happens and everything goes ok, we should tag a release of a component
  • Once all components are ready a grid release is complete and we can host that release on whatever environment
  • Container image tags must not contain the v-prefix

Blocking Bugfixes for Mainnet

  • In case of a blocking bug happening only on mainnet, we branch out of the tag on the affected component repository
  • do the fix on that branch
  • host a new grid release on a testing environment to verify
  • tag the new component
  • merge to trunk
  • create a new grid release
  • host that grid release (its components) on mainnet