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Investigate again a central cache for package managers
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Package managers need to hit some cache to speed them up. We have a homegrown system based on rsync nicknamed Castor. I would like to replace it with something more robust.

Some past investigation is on T112560 and sub tasks.

Sonatype Nexus 2.x did not support npm/rubygems/pip. Version 3 does. On https://www.sonatype.com/download-oss-sonatype

Nexus Repository Manager OSS 3.xx

Manage these formats:

Docker NuGet npm Bower PyPI Ruby Gems

Related docs:

npmhttps://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/3.0/reference/npm.html
pypihttps://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/3.0/reference/pypi.html
gemhttps://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/3.0/reference/rubygems.html

Wikimedia has Apache Archiva for Maven artifacts but it is not in proxy mode and I dont think it supports npm/pypi/rubygems.

There is a feature matrix that is apparently kept up-to-date by maintainers of Archiva, Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, Eclipse Package Drone, and ProGet: https://binary-repositories-comparison.github.io/

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(WIP) contint: Sonatype Nexus (WIP)operations/puppetproduction+118 -0
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hashar created this task.Oct 7 2016, 12:34 PM
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gerritbot subscribed.Oct 7 2016, 8:44 PM

Change 314751 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hashar):
(WIP) contint: Sonatype Nexus (WIP)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/314751

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 7 2016, 8:44 PM
hashar added a comment.Oct 7 2016, 10:04 PM

Did a basic puppet sprint and applied it on repository.integration.eqiad.wmflabs

Nexus got installed from the tar.gz

I have done a basic configuration which has a proxy for each of maven/npm/rubygems and pypi.

• mmodell awarded a token.Oct 8 2016, 1:57 AM
hashar added a comment.Oct 10 2016, 2:15 PM

I crafted a very lame puppet manifest. Sonatype provides their software as a tar.gz that has 266 .jar probably not worth trying to make a Debian package out of it.

Marko pointed out that it would be a good use case for scap3 deployment which would ship the code AND contain the setting files. So in theory we could have the instance to be a deploy server then just git pull && scap deploy to upgrade Nexus.

hashar triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 11 2016, 8:48 AM
hashar moved this task from Untriaged to Backlog on the Continuous-Integration-Infrastructure board.
hashar mentioned this in T106519: [Bug] github.com is 403ing downloads from Wikimedia CI during composer update.Oct 11 2016, 9:08 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 17 2017, 2:06 PM

Change 314751 abandoned by Hashar:
(WIP) contint: Sonatype Nexus (WIP)

Reason:
The instance works on labs, I used with a few jenkins jobs and it works properly in the few use cases I tried.

However I don't have time to figure out how to deploy the Nexus java application itself. So abandoning until one has time to allocate to that.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/314751

Stashbot subscribed.Feb 17 2017, 2:07 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-releng) [2017-02-17T14:07:58Z] <hashar> integration: deleting "repository" instance. No time to figure out how to ship Sonatype Nexus to it. T147635

hashar added a comment.Feb 17 2017, 2:08 PM

The instance worked on labs, I used with a few jenkins jobs and it works properly in the few use cases I tried.

However I don't have time to figure out how to deploy the Nexus java application itself. So abandoning until one has time to allocate to that.

I have deleted the instance.

hashar changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Feb 17 2017, 2:09 PM

Stalled until we get bandwidth to figure out how to ship Sonatype Nexus in a better way than wget && tar -xvf.

greg moved this task from INBOX to Backlog on the Release-Engineering-Team board.May 20 2017, 12:15 PM
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hashar mentioned this in T216039: jenkins / zuul backing up due to jenkins slaves down.Feb 20 2019, 2:30 PM
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hashar mentioned this in T188375: castor rsync's taking 3-5 minutes for mwgate-npm jobs.Sep 11 2019, 6:19 PM
Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 11 2019, 7:12 PM
hashar mentioned this in T234075: quibble-composer-sqlite-php72-docker does not use cache for composer downloads.Sep 27 2019, 8:45 PM
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Aklapper added a comment.Jun 22 2020, 7:50 PM
In T147635#3036488, @hashar wrote:

Stalled until we get bandwidth to figure out how to ship Sonatype Nexus in a better way than wget && tar -xvf.

@hashar: Three years later, is this still the same situation and still wanted?

dancy changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Jul 27 2020, 7:12 PM
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hashar closed this task as Declined.Oct 22 2021, 1:02 PM

This is surely still wanted but there is little incentive or resource to drive the search or setup a new infrastructure. I am declining the task to reflect the reality.

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