As the scope of FxA projects grow and new repositories are added keeping a development environment up to date and functional becomes increasingly more difficult. So far we've been able to use awsbox for our various *.dev.lcip.org servers, but I feel like we're reaching the limits of their convenience for testing the whole integrated system. The latest and nightly servers have accumulated various one off hacks to do the things we need them to do and I think this would continue as we add more services.
I started a repo a couple weeks ago to start to try and address this issue and also allow for more experimentation with our deployment. What I'd like to propose here is that we retire our current set of shared *.dev.lcip.org awsboxes and use this new thing for our shared dev/test environment. So what is the new thing an how is it better? 1. It uses cloudformation to create the all the AWS resources. - Its the same way production and stage resources are provisioned - It allows for easier server architecture experimentation - Stack setup and teardown is easier 2. Supporting services are included. - Heka, Elasticsearch and Kibana are included - Can use the same tools to debug dev as prod - Makes developing new Heka filters, Kibana dashboards, etc. easier 3. Its provisioned with Ansible. - All parts of the installation are documented and repeatable - Easy to add new roles and tasks - Automatically update server configuration in addition to code Its not complete but I think it now has all the minimum requirements to to serve as our latest and nightly development servers: https, ssh access, reliable email, auto-update. The latest server pulls from github every 10 minutes and is at: https://latest.dev.lcip.org To log in with ssh: ssh [email protected] Heka and Kibana are at: http://meta-latest.dev.lcip.org:4352 and http://meta-latest.dev.lcip.org:9199 The repo is: https://github.com/dannycoates/fxa-dev The readme has some basic info on the AWS setup. For a deep dive look at the roles and aws directories. Please have a look and share any feedback :) -- Danny Coates _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
