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[Feature flag] Enable original terraform state replication

What

Remove the :geo_terraform_state_replication feature flag

Owners

  • Team: groupgeo
  • Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_geo
  • Best individual to reach out to: Alex Ives/@alexives

Expectations

What are we expecting to happen?

Older terraform states should be replicated

What might happen if this goes wrong?

The states don't replicate correctly, or some parts of them don't update.

What can we monitor to detect problems with this?

https://staging.gitlab.com/admin/geo/nodes

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.

  • https://staging.gitlab.com/gitlab-geo-terraform-testing/terraform project

Roll Out Steps

  • Enable on staging
  • Test on staging
  • Ensure that documentation has been updated
  • Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour
  • Coordinate a time to enable the flag with #production and #g_delivery on slack.
  • Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com
  • Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
  • 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