This is super awesome. This is something that could be useful for MobileFrontend, although I suspect there will need to be some additional configuration work to mimic how mobile requests get handled on the cluster. I'll ping Antoine :)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Chris McMahon <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Arthur Richards > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Chris, this sounds really cool. Can you point us to some specs about how > > the test environment is set up (what is the architecture like, what > > services are running, etc)? How closely does it emulate the production > > environment? Does the beta labs environment provide load balanced > > squid/varnish caching layers, configured similarly to the produciton > > cluster? If not, is that something we can hope to see? Is the setup > > something that we can package up and easily deploy to new instances in > > labs? > > > > This is somewhat out of date and in the queue to be updated, so take it > with a grain of salt, but most of that is documented here: > https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment/Overview > > I have to admit I am still learning my way around, I'll defer to Antoine > for any detailed answers on the configuration. > > > > Also, how can other projects/extensions start getting automatically > pushed > > to the beta labs setup? > > > The rule of thumb so far is that any code with a scheduled deployment date > may (and probably should) be deployed to beta labs beforehand. In practice > this has so far meant AFTv5, NewPagesFeed + Curation Toolbar, and to some > extent TimedMediaHandler (testing TMH was the original motivation to get > this environment in place). For example, AFTv5 is about to undergo some > back end changes, I want to have an automated end-to-end test in place for > it to be sure the front end is not changed by accident. > > This is still early days though, if you have a project that could benefit > from the beta labs test env, I'm open to discussing anything along those > lines. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
