2022-07-22: Update home page url in staging from https://about.staging.gitlab.com to https://staging.gitlab.com/users/sign_in

Staging Change

Change Summary

Update the home page url in staging from https://about.staging.gitlab.com to https://staging.gitlab.com/users/sign_in.

See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/reliability/-/issues/16078

Change Details

1. Services Impacted - ServiceGitLab Rails
2. Change Technician - @nnelson
3. Change Reviewer - @ahanselka
4. Time tracking - 2 minutes
5. Downtime Component - none

Detailed steps for the change

Change Steps - steps to take to execute the change

Estimated Time to Complete (mins) - Estimated Time to Complete in Minutes

• Set label changein-progress /label ~change::in-progress
• Navigate to https://staging.gitlab.com/admin/application_settings/general > Sign-in restrictions
• To the new value: https://staging.gitlab.com/users/sign_in, change this field:

• Click Save changes.
• Set label changecomplete /label ~change::complete

Rollback

Rollback steps - steps to be taken in the event of a need to rollback this change

Estimated Time to Complete (mins) - Estimated Time to Complete in Minutes

• Navigate to https://staging.gitlab.com/admin/application_settings/general > Sign-in restrictions
• To the old value: https://about.staging.gitlab.com, change this field:

• Click Save changes.
• Set label changeaborted /label ~change::aborted

Monitoring

Key metrics to observe

• Metric: Unknown
  • Location: Unknown
  • What changes to this metric should prompt a rollback: Unknown

There are no known bad outcomes of this change. If something is unacceptable or causing errors, please proceed to roll-back.

Change Reviewer checklist

C4 C3 C2 C1:

• Check if the following applies:
  • The scheduled day and time of execution of the change is appropriate.
  • The change plan is technically accurate.
  • The change plan includes estimated timing values based on previous testing.
  • The change plan includes a viable rollback plan.
  • The specified metrics/monitoring dashboards provide sufficient visibility for the change.

C2 C1:

• Check if the following applies:
  • The complexity of the plan is appropriate for the corresponding risk of the change. (i.e. the plan contains clear details).
  • The change plan includes success measures for all steps/milestones during the execution.
  • The change adequately minimizes risk within the environment/service.
  • The performance implications of executing the change are well-understood and documented.
  • The specified metrics/monitoring dashboards provide sufficient visibility for the change.
    • If not, is it possible (or necessary) to make changes to observability platforms for added visibility?
  • The change has a primary and secondary SRE with knowledge of the details available during the change window.
  • The labels blocks deployments and/or blocks feature-flags are applied as necessary

Change Technician checklist

• Check if all items below are complete:
  • The change plan is technically accurate.
  • This Change Issue is linked to the appropriate Issue and/or Epic
  • Change has been tested in staging and results noted in a comment on this issue.
  • A dry-run has been conducted and results noted in a comment on this issue.
  • For C1 and C2 change issues, the change event is added to the GitLab Production calendar.
  • For C1 and C2 change issues, the SRE on-call has been informed prior to change being rolled out. (In #production channel, mention @sre-oncall and this issue and await their acknowledgement.)
  • For C1 and C2 change issues, the SRE on-call provided approval with the eoc_approved label on the issue.
  • For C1 and C2 change issues, the Infrastructure Manager provided approval with the manager_approved label on the issue.
  • Release managers have been informed (If needed! Cases include DB change) prior to change being rolled out. (In #production channel, mention @release-managers and this issue and await their acknowledgment.)
  • There are currently no active incidents that are severity1 or severity2
  • If the change involves doing maintenance on a database host, an appropriate silence targeting the host(s) should be added for the duration of the change.