Just to be clear:

• What's the suggested timeframe here? Is this something that's proposed for the next quarter?
• Who is going to "own" this service? Is it the Services team or are you purely on a consulting role here? Is the communication flow going to be mobile apps->services->ops (and the other way around for e.g. incidents/outages)?

Finally, I'm sure I sound like a broken record by now, but I really don't like seeing projects on GitHub all the time, and especially on personal accounts. Please don't diverge from what the rest of the organization uses; use our standard tools for developing (Phabricator for issue tracking/project management, Gerrit for code review, Jenkins for CI, etc.).

In T92627#1116715, @faidon wrote:

Just to be clear:

• What's the suggested timeframe here? Is this something that's proposed for the next quarter?

ASAP, as always :) That being said, there are still some preliminaries to be done. We will first experiment in beta with it. Also, the important thing to note here is that the service won't need to be accessible from the outside, since the plan is to use RESTBase as a storage solution for it. We plan to provide as much set-up and config (aka puppet modules/templates/config) as possible.

• Who is going to "own" this service? Is it the Services team or are you purely on a consulting role here? Is the communication flow going to be mobile apps->services->ops (and the other way around for e.g. incidents/outages)?

The initial plan is for it to be owned jointly by the Services and MobileApps teams. Outside of regular deploys, i.e. in case of incidents/outages, the Services team will take action if needed, so the flow would be ops <-> services.

Finally, I'm sure I sound like a broken record by now, but I really don't like seeing projects on GitHub all the time, and especially on personal accounts. Please don't diverge from what the rest of the organization uses; use our standard tools for developing (Phabricator for issue tracking/project management, Gerrit for code review, Jenkins for CI, etc.).

Agreed. There are pending requests for the repos (normal+deploy) on MW. Test jobs will be set up accordingly.

@faidon I've transferred the repo to the wikimedia account: https://github.com/wikimedia/service-mobileapp-node.

The repos are in Gerrit now:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/services/mobileapps
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/deploy

@mobrovac Any updates about this? When can we expect the service to be deployed on the SCA cluster?

@mobrovac, could you add the info from the mail thread here as well?

Status update:

• T95533 is actively being worked on, and is needed as part of the service deployment process (c/p is bad for health, really), should be done soon
• on the development front, in order to integrate the MobileApps service with RESTBase, T95551 needs to be completed; we have started work on that front as well (side note: this is to some extent unrelated to the actual deployment of the service on SCA, but mentioning here completeness)

@akosiaris could we get some estimates and next steps once the Puppet module is done ?

Another status update: T95533 has been resolved, allowing us to move forward on this front. ETA for deployment: end of April.

Current state of affairs: we are getting ready for deployment, but we need these blocking tasks to be resolved first:

• T96126: Update the MobileApps service to the latest version of the service template - It contains some important security updates (most notably setting CORS and CSP headers). I have already uploaded a patch for that, but we need you Mobile-Apps folks to properly test them on your native apps
• T96870: Add proper tests for MobileApps service routes - currently there are no tests at all for the service's endpoints; there really need to be written before the service's release

While the above are being solved out, there is some information that needs to be provided for this to be deployed in production. While the process for providing that information is still be worked on, the actual information needed is at this point available at T97031. Would you be so kind as to provide the requested info in bullet points in T97031 in this task so we can move forward ? https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fservices%2Fmobileapps.git/0268250208127c8e1613c5f1221c0f67d47d2697/README.md is pretty good for the first bullet point by the way.

Change 207050 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
mobileapps service: Role and module for SCA

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207050

Change 207051 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
mobileapps service: LVS configuration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207051

Change 207052 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
mobileapps service: Varnish / parsoidcache configuration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207052

T96870: Add proper tests for MobileApps service routes is about to be completed, which means we are ready to move to the last requirement before deployment.

@bearND can you please do the following:

• create a new ticket under the Service-deployment-requests project
• in its description provide the information listed in the description in T97031
• put the task as a blocker of this task

If you need any help or additional info, let us know.

Some small corrections to my previous post:

In T92627#1356722, @mobrovac wrote:

T96870: Add proper tests for MobileApps service routes is about to be completed, which means we are ready to move to the last requirement before deployment.

It's done now! Yupii.

@bearND can you please do the following:

• create a new ticket under the Service-deployment-requests project
• in its description provide the information listed in the description in T97031

Just go the Service-deployment-requests profile page and see the info there. There's even a link for creating a pre-populated task.

• put the task as a blocker of this task

If you need any help or additional info, let us know.

Change 227724 had a related patch set uploaded (by Giuseppe Lavagetto):
Add mobileapps LVS IP

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/227724

Change 227724 merged by Giuseppe Lavagetto:
Add mobileapps LVS IP

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/227724

Change 230816 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
Update mobileapps to ed0ae9d

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/230816

Change 230816 merged by Mobrovac:
Update mobileapps to ed0ae9d

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/230816

Change 231287 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
Update mobileapps to 967ea11

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/231287

Change 231287 merged by Mobrovac:
Update mobileapps to 967ea11

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/231287

Change 207052 abandoned by Alexandros Kosiaris:
mobileapps service: Varnish / parsoidcache configuration

Reason:
Too old, would be a pain to rebase plus it is already being done differently

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207052

Change 207051 abandoned by Alexandros Kosiaris:
mobileapps service: LVS configuration

Reason:
Too old, would be a pain to rebase plus it is already being done in a different cluster

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207051

Change 207050 abandoned by Alexandros Kosiaris:
mobileapps service: Role and module for SCA

Reason:
Too old, would be a pain to rebase plus it is already being done in a different cluster

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/207050

Change 232003 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mobrovac):
RESTBase: Add MobileApps endpoints and back-end config

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/232003

Change 232003 merged by Giuseppe Lavagetto:
RESTBase: Add MobileApps endpoints and back-end config

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/232003

The MobileApps service is now live and kicking in production! Play with it here (under the Mobile section)

*faint*