Update the maven_package_requests_forwarding setting value in the application settings to false

Production Change

Change Summary

The Maven request forward is a feature that allow package to be fetched from Maven Central when not found in the GitLab instance.

The feature can be used when packages are pulled through:

1. a project level endpoint.
2. a group level endpoint.
3. an instance wide endpoint.

For (3.), an application setting is used: maven_package_requests_forwarding. For reasons explained here, we don't want this feature to be used at the instance level.

We thus need to disable it in the application settings.

Please note that the Maven request forward is behind a feature flag that is currently not enabled on gitlab.com. As such, this change has no immediate effect but it unblocks the feature flag rollout. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/359553#note_1257774242.

Change Details

1. Services Impacted - ServiceGitLab Rails
2. Change Technician - @steveazz
3. Change Reviewer - @steveazz
4. Time tracking - 3min
5. Downtime Component - 0

Detailed steps for the change

Change Steps - steps to take to execute the change

Estimated Time to Complete (mins) - 2min

• Set label changein-progress /label ~change::in-progress
• In a rails console:

  ::Gitlab::CurrentSettings.current_application_settings.update!(maven_package_requests_forwarding: false)

• Verify the change with:

  ::Gitlab::CurrentSettings.current_application_settings.maven_package_requests_forwarding # must return false

• 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) - 2min

• In a rails console:

  ::Gitlab::CurrentSettings.current_application_settings.update!(maven_package_requests_forwarding: true)

• Set label changeaborted /label ~change::aborted

Monitoring

Key metrics to observe

This change impacts a feature that is behind a feature flag and currently disabled for gitlab.com. As such, there is no impact to observe from this change.

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