Overview

This epic contains all of the issues to migration the web frontend to the GitLab.com Kubernetes cluster.

The result of completing this will be to decommission the following VM fleets:

• web-*
• web-cny-*

DRI

• @ggillies

Board

• Migration of Web into Kubernetes

Blocking Issues

• Issues listed in this epic
• Graceful shut down of workhorse: gitlab-org/gitlab#325114 (closed)
• Some config can only be set by env var: gitlab-org&6060
• All blocking issues https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=kubernetes-migration-blocker

Milestones

• Potential Nginx blocker investigated and resolved
• Preprod rollout the Web fleet to Kubernetes
• Staging rollout the Web fleet to Kubernetes
• Canary rollout the Web fleet to Kubernetes
• Production rollout the Web fleet to Kubernetes
• Cleanup
  • Resource tuning
  • Documentation updated
  • VMs removed
• Resolve migration-related bugs

Issue Template

For any new issues that need to be created and linked to this epic, utilize the following:

/epic &272 
/label ~"workflow-infra::Triage" ~"team::Delivery" ~"Service::Web" ~kubernetes ~"Delivery::P2" 

Status 2021-09-23

The web fleet continues to run well following the migration to Kubernetes. Both known bugs resulting from the migration have been fixed: 1. /admin/sidekiq not loading - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/-/issues/14150 1. missing ssh fingerprints - delivery#2018 (closed) All issues are closed and this migration is considered complete.