[Feature flag] Roll out `ff_external_status_checks`
What
Enable and remove the :compliance_approval_gates
feature flag.
Owners
- Team: groupcompliance
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_manage_compliance
- Best individual to reach out to: @mwoolf / @rob.hunt
Expectations
What are we expecting to happen?
- Allowing customers to start using the external status checks feature and related REST APIs.
What might happen if this goes wrong?
- This new feature may not work.
- Blast radius is relatively small:
- GitLab Ultimate only feature. - Only applies to groups that have explictly enabled this feature.
- Frontend elements load asyncronously. Won't block MR page.
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
- Errors to new external status check APIs
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 --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name false
Edited by Max Woolf