Hi everyone, The first week update of helm chart xwiki project. We currently have a chart that would deploy xwiki mysql stateful service with a persistent volume. The link to the repo:-
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-helm Thank You Ashish On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 7:27 PM, Ashish Sharma <sharma.ashish...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:42 PM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> > wrote: > >> Hi Ashish, >> >> > On 21 May 2019, at 19:37, Ashish Sharma <sharma.ashish...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi everyone, >> > Thanks for having me here >> > >> > About Me >> > >> > I am Ashish Sharma, selected as a student for Google Summer of Code. I >> am >> > final year student enrolled in Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha >> University, >> > Delhi. I am a resident of India. >> > >> > Profiles >> > GitHub - https://github.com/ashish932/xwiki-helm-chart/ >> > LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish932/ >> > Riot - @ashish932:matrix.org >> > >> > I will be presenting my project "Helm Chart for XWiki" to all of you. >> > Following >> > are the relevant details. >> > >> > Helm Chart for XWiki >> > >> > Mentors: Shubham Jain, Neha Gupta >> > >> > Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, other if required >> > >> > Overview >> > The proposed project is a helm chart that would deploy xwiki as highly >> > available and reliable. It should be configurable with different >> > databases(either a standalone database or a clustered one) that are >> > configurable with xwiki. It would give the option to either configure >> solr >> > externally (standalone or clustered) or managed within the container. >> >> It also needs to be deployed on various Servlet Containers and with a >> LibreOffice server configured. >> >> In short, it should support all the configurations supported by the >> official XWiki Docker images :) >> >> > It >> > should deploy the app on a shared file system like a rook. It should >> > support Istio virtual services, istio matrix, and istio distributed >> tracing >> > and should be a secured system with RBAC and security credential >> rotation. >> >> Ok I have no knowledge about this… The shared file system sounds good to >> support clustering XWiki for the permanent directory sharing. >> >> > The chart should be easily deployed on GKE and amazon EKS. >> >> On locally on minikube for testing I guess? >> > > Yes we can test using minikube one > >> >> > Features >> > >> > -> Support for different Databases >> > -> Choice between using an external database, a single node DB or a >> > multi-cluster DB setup >> > -> Support for shared file system >> > -> Support for istio and it's services >> > -> RBAC, SSL and other security methods >> > >> > If you have any features in mind that should be added please feel free >> to >> > reply to this mail. >> > >> > Some Design Questions? >> > -> Which Databases should be supported? >> >> See >> https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy/DatabaseSupportStrategy >> >> More generally see the XWiki Docker image documentation and >> https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy >> >> > -> As we have to detach solr out of the docker container(run it in an >> > independent container) would be there a requirement for a code change, >> and >> > we should approach it? >> >> See the doc for Solr which explains how to configure an external SOLR. >> There are some XWiki code/config to deploy in the external SOLR AFAIR. >> comunity controls chart >> > -> Apart from solr is there any other stateful service that could or >> should >> > be detached from the docker container? >> >> Which docker container are you referring to? The Servlet Container one? >> >> xwiki:lts-mysql-tomcat > > >> > Here is my current repository which deploys XWiki for MySQL database >> using >> > official XWiki docker container:- >> > https://github.com/ashish932/xwiki-helm-chart/ >> >> Will need to have a look. Some additional questions: >> >> 1) Is there an official place for publishing helm charts, similar to >> dockerhub for docker images? How do you provide the helm charts to XWiki >> users in term of packaging? In other words, what will we/you document on >> https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Installation/ >> ? >> >> Yes, There is a centralized community control chart management > repository. Helm charts are hosted there. Organizations like mysql, > wordpress uses it. > https://github.com/helm/charts > But in addition to that, we can build our own charts repository locally, > and host it. Similar to docker run command, we have helm update command > > >> 2) How do you plan to have smoke tests for the XWiki Helm charts, as part >> of the build, to verify that they work fine? How can we execute XWik’s >> functional tests based on TestContainers using Helm Charts? >> > > There are some tools available > chart-testing(started by helm) -98 commits > terratest - 1039 commits (It looks a good tool to use) > > >> 3) Do the helm charts for XWiki need to be built? If so, can it be done >> with Maven? Since we’ll be offering several I guess, how do you avoid code >> duplication and make maintenance of them as simple as possible? >> > > No, the charts don’t need to be built externally, though it gets > compressed when pushed f we build to chart repository(this is an automatic > step in case of official chart repo and we can automate using ci our own > chart repo) > > 4) Could you provide a roadmap with various milestones and dates? See the >> last roadmap email I sent on the devs list and please reply to it. >> > > Okay I would work on that and update the progress on the mail thread > > >> 5) It seems you missed the bonding period so you’ll need to catch up on >> that. Could you pick some jira issue and work on them quickly? This is to >> make sure you use the proper xwiki communication channels, learn to work >> with the xwiki team and start understanding the xwiki architecture, and how >> extensions are developed for XWiki. Since you’re a bit late, you’ll need to >> catch up and achieve this very quickly now and be present full time on the >> xwiki chat :) >> > I would start doing that > >> >> 6) Idea: please review the issues on the XWiki Docker project’s jira. >> Maybe you can help with those too as part of onboarding/bonding. It should >> also give you additional use cases for the XWiki Helm Charts IMO. >> >> Thanks! I’m eager to follow your work and see xwiki helm charts in action. >> >> -Vincent >> >> > >> > >> > Thank You >> > Ashish Sharma >> >> Thank You > Ashish >
