14.7 Outlook

This is the current outlook for the 14.7 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: 2021-12-10

Geo: Secondary sites proxy to primary site priority2

Who: Mike, Catalin

Follow up initial release with continued testing and work on separate URL support. Clarify further iterations and perform solution validation with key customers.

• Geo: Primary Admin Area can do secondary-specific tasks

GA for Geo Object Storage Replication priority2

• Geo: Replicate deletion of remote stored files
• Geo: Test and validate object storage replication performance on reference architectures

Geo: Self Service Framework - Verify all Blob Replicators priority2

Who: Aakriti, Mike

Assuming verification for uploads, LFS files, MR diffs, pages ship in 14.6, we'll clean up the feature flags and address any needed follow ups.

• Geo: SSF verification failures on secondary when the resource cannot possibly be verified

Geo should use Rails 6 many databases support priority2

Who: Douglas

• Rails changes - Allow configuration of Geo tracking database in database.yml (#340083) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab

Update Geo tables affected by the PK Overflow risk conversions priority2

Who: Mike

• Migrate geo package_file_registry package_file_id and id to bigint
• Migrate geo job_artifact_registry artifact_id and id to bigint

Geo: Move CI Job Artifacts to Self-Service Framework priority2

Who: Valery

Geo: Use GET to run QA against Geo instances priority2

Who: Ian

• Ensure QA on Geo is passing
• Allow usage of file based replication for Geo installs

Support Distribution team spike to use Geo Tracking DB for Praefect priority3

UX Research and Improvements

• UX Research for backup/restore JTBD
• Improve replication button details UX
• Geo: Improve synchronization status UX

Misc Issues

• Backup Terraform state files
• Geo: Update Geo Status Page URL to admin/geo/sites
• Geo: Use git clone for first sync instead of git fetch