Rollout multiple_cache_per_job feature flag
What
Rollout of the feature flag multiple_cache_per_job
Owners
- Team: ~"pipeline authoring"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_pa_engineering
- Best individual to reach out to: @lauraMon
Related to: !53410 (merged), #32814 (closed)
Beta groups/projects
-
multiple-cache
personal project -
gitlab-org/gitlab
project -
gitlab-org
/gitlab-com
groups
Roll Out Steps
-
Enable on beta groups/projects -
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. Ensure that the feature flag definition YAML file has been removed in the same MR that is removing the feature flag from the code -
After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production
channel
Additional cleanup
-
Remove the strategy
from Entry::Cache and separate intoEntry::Cache
andEntry::Caches
. This will require changingEntry::Cache
inEntry::Job
,Entry::Root
andEntry::Default
to always make cache go through Caches. -
Cleanup the specs, which have cases for both. #323544 (closed) #322740 (closed) #323543 (closed)
Rollback Steps
-
This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:
/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab multiple_cache_per_job false
Edited by Laura Montemayor