Set Up Basic Development Kit/Improve New Developer Onboarding

Problem

Developing the customer portal requires a long installation process/setup.

Proposal

Create a development kit such as GDK that will let us install and update the customer portal easily.

Right now we have a basic CDK script - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/customers-gitlab-com/-/blob/staging/cdk/setup.rb

The idea would be to add steps to it that go through the different stages of the setup:

1. Install asdf
2. Run ./bin/bootstrap
3. Start posgresql/redis
4. Setup ngrok (use something like https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-prompt to prompt for the token, etc...)
5. Setup Unleash (we should probably have a Settings class that reads, merges, and writes to the secrets.yml file)
6. Setup Zuora (Using tty-prompt or similar plus the Settings class, to keep it interactive)
7. For setting up Zuora, we could build a Slack command to retrieve this via CI and GitLab Chatops as a future iteration
8. Setup the local environment via bundle install, yarn install, DB setup, etc...
9. Start ngrok
10. Setup GitLab (optional): We could again use the prompt to ask for details and update them using Settings. As a future iteration asking for a token and URL may suffice to do the whole thing ourselves.
11. Start the app

A few commands I would expect CDK to handle (some in future iterations):

bin/cdk setup # Runs all of the steps above, ideally idempotent
bin/cdk setup ngrok # Runs just this specific step
bin/cdk update # Updates to latest, merges new secrets files using Settings, runs migrations, restarts app...
bin/cdk start/restart/stop # Starts/restarts/stops the application

Also this is largely inspired by the application that use to deploy GitLab not long ago: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/takeoff

Result

Set up time for future developers would decrease.