#release-engineering (2020-06)
All things CI/CD. Specific emphasis on Codefresh and CodeBuild with CodePipeline.
CI/CD Discussions
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2020-06-23
It seems like everytime I run a codebuild build from the UI by pressing the Start Build button it starts 2-3 instances of the build, anyone experience the same?
2020-06-25
Question: Are there any best practices out there for managing database dependencies as part of the build and deploy pipeline? For example:
• A team is using Dynamo and need to pre-populate it with some data as part of the initial deploy
• A team is working with SQL in RDS and needs to add a new table with a particular release Looking for ideas on how to keep the database dependencies synced with the code as we roll out releases. Appreciate any help!
For the second one, all schema changes should be part of the code base. You can use tools like alembic and flyway to apply the changes during release
on the second item - we’ve recently started treating the database as a separate item with it’s own version and our legacy monolith depends on a database version
while it seems counter intuitive, with our monolith deploy times are too lengthy to quickly roll a fix forward, so we need to be able to roll back
by decoupling the database deploy it means we can roll back a version safely, as our code supports vCurrent and vNext of the database
previously we were finding that roll backs during an outage event were taking too long because we were trying to confirm if database changes would be destructive
We have a monolith now, but the “plan” is to move to smaller services that all maintain their own system of record.
Similarly our teams separate data migrations from application deployment. Some migrations take a long time… which brings up other questions…
2020-06-26
2020-06-30
Hey folks - any appetite for https://github.com/cloudposse/github-status-updater/pull/11 ? I’m in need of a github PR status updater that supports GHE
new release cut and migrated to github actions
Thanks @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)!
Failing that, anyone know a single go binary similar to https://github.com/cloudposse/github-status-updater (Would be nice to have functionality to comment on a PR too)
going to get our github actions for this setup
our travis has been causing us problems and no longer works.