[Feature flag] Rollout of `deploy_keys_on_protected_branches`
What
Remove the :deploy_keys_on_protected_branches feature flag to allow the selection of deploy keys in protected branches settings.
Owners
Team: Progressive Delivery Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #s_release Best individual to reach out to: @ebaque @shinya.maeda
Expectations
What are we expecting to happen?
Deploy Keys should be made available, along with Roles and Users (EE-only), when defining Protected Branches (Projects > Settings > Repository)
What might happen if this goes wrong?
We cannot think of any negative impacts by change.
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Given this feature is highly demanded by end-users, they will notify us if something went wrong.
Beta groups/projects
If applicable, any groups/projects that are happy to have this feature turned on early. Some organizations may wish to test big changes they are interested in with a small subset of users ahead of time for example.
-
gitlab-org/gitlab
project -
gitlab-org
/gitlab-com
groups - ...
Roll Out Steps
-
Enable on staging ( /chatops run feature set feature_name true --staging
) -
Test on staging -
Ensure that documentation has been updated -
Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour ( /chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name true
) -
Coordinate a time to enable the flag with the SRE oncall and release managers - In
#production
mention@sre-oncall
and@release-managers
. Once an SRE on call and Release Manager on call confirm, you can proceed with the rollout
- In
-
Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com -
Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
(/chatops run feature set feature_name true
) - [-] Cross post chatops Slack command to
#support_gitlab-com
(more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs) and in your team channel -
Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled -
Remove feature flag and add changelog entry -
After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production
channel
Rollback Steps
-
This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:
/chatops run feature set deploy_keys_on_protected_branches false