14.5 outlook
This is the current outlook for the 14.5 milestone. The Geo team schedules issues and works in a continuous Kanban manner, while still aligning with milestones. See our process page for more detail.
Last Updated: 2021-10-08
Address Gitaly Custer + Geo Issues priority1
Who: Ian
- Avoid repo renames on Geo secondary - started in 14.3
If any work is needed after the investigation in 14.4, we will prioritize for 14.5.
Geo: Secondary sites proxy to primary site priority2
Who: Mike, Catalin
Continue testing and fixing blockers for release. Currently discussing rollout strategy in gitlab-org/gitlab#325732 (comment 701653893)
Geo: Self Service Framework - Verify all Blob Replicators priority2
Who: Aakriti, Ian, Gabriel, Mike
- [Feature flag] [Geo] Enable MR diffs verification feature
- Geo: Self Service Framework - Verify LFS Objects
- Geo: Verify GitLab Pages Deployments
- Verification of uploads wih SSF
With verification worker and improvements merged in 14.4, implement verification for other blob data types.
Geo: Create a single command that can be run on any node to promote a secondary to primary priority2
Who: Gabriel, Douglas
We are planning to announce a beta release in 14.4 pending manual testing results. Assuming this happens, Nick W plans to implement single-command failover in GET and we will support this effort.
Geo should use Rails 6 many databases support priority2
Who: Douglas
Continue the in-progress work from 14.4.
Support Distribution team spike to use Geo Tracking DB for Praefect priority2
Update Geo tables affected by the PK Overflow risk conversions priority2
Geo: Move projects and wikis to the Self-Service Framework priority3
Who: ???
Geo: Move CI Job Artifacts to Self-Service Framework priority3
Who: ???
Geo Status Page Improvements priority3
Who: Sunjung, Zack