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Title Services and Service components release and deployment process
Document link https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC23
Last modified 2019-09-18
Policy Group Acronym OMB
Policy Group Name Operations Management Board
Contact Group operations at egi.eu
Document Status FINAL
Approved Date 2018-11-29
Procedure Statement The procedure provides steps for service updates and releases of the centrally-provided production services.
Owner Baptiste Grenier


Overview

The procedure describes the release and deployment of the centrally-provided IT service and service components part of the EGI Service Catalogue.

Definitions

Please refer to the EGI Glossary for the definitions of the terms used in this procedure.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", “MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Entities involved in the procedure

  • Service Provider team: Team responsible for development, release and deployment of the service or service component
  • Operations team: Oversees all the process and may provide further people for testing the service or service component
  • Noc-Managers: Is informed regarding the release of the new service or service component and may provide further people for testing it

Requirements

The prerequisites are:

  • Centrally-provided Service or service component part of the EGI production Infrastructure;
  • Development team should refer to the EGI Change management documentation.

Acceptance criteria

A new release of a Service or service component can be deployed in production if:

  • All the prerequisites are satisfied
  • The results of the testing in step 3b do not show any major problem:
    • The Service or service component is usable with all its features
    • The interoperability with the other Service or service component is not broken

Steps for the release of a service or service component update

Responsible Action Notes
1 Service Provider team

Once release is ready the team opens a GGUS ticket (selecting category: Release) to Operations SU with the following information:

  • Name of the service or service component;
  • Date of release;
  • Release notes;
  • Suggested deployment date;
  • Testing instance url and testing instructions;
  • Names of testers if testing is manual (if not defined Development team may ask to appoint testers);
  • If the release is originating from one or multiple Change Records tracked in RT tickets as part of Change Management (CHM), then add the links to the respective RT tickets.
2 Operations Team
  • Assess if ticket came from a change record tracked in RT:
    • if yes check that the GGUS ticket contains links to the changes (RT tickets) that are implemented in this release;
    • If not validate that the change was allowed to by-pass Change Record tracking.
  • Inform the Noc-Managers about the upcoming release, asking if there is anyone else interested in performing the test;
  • can add further people for performing the tests;
  • The suggested duration of the test phase is two weeks;
  • Update the ticket.
3a Operations Team / Noc-Managers Update the ticket with the information on the performed tests and their result.
3b Service Provider team Update the ticket with information about results of the overall testing phase.
4 Service Provider team Provide in the ticket the link to updated documentation.
5 Service Provider team and Operations team Agree on an appropriate deployment date and update the ticket.
6 Operations team 10 days before the upcoming deployment, inform the Noc-Managers.

Update the ticket.

7 Service Provider team Schedule a downtime of the service in case it is needed.
8 Service Provider team Deploy release and update the ticket.
9 Operations team Close the GGUS ticket after a week of the deployment only if the release was successful.

Emergency release

Definition of emergency release

An emergency release is the process of releasing one Service or service component, or a set of Services or service components, with the targeted goal of solving a specific problem affecting the EGI infrastructure. To qualify the problem for an emergency release the problem should be classified in at least one of the following categories:

  • Major incident;
  • Critical security vulnerability.

Steps for emergency release

Responsible Action Notes
1 Service Provider team

Once the release is ready the team opens a GGUS ticket (Selecting category: Release and priority: Top priority) to Operations SU with the following information:

  • Name of the Service or service component;
  • Date of the release;
  • Release notes;
  • Justification of the need for the emergency release;
  • If the release is originating from one or multiple Change Records tracked in RT tickets as part of Change Management (CHM), then add the links to the respective RT tickets.
2 Operations Team
  • Acknowledge the need for the emergency release;
  • Update the ticket.
3 Service Provider team Record an unplanned downtime of the service in case it is needed.
4 Service Provider team Deploy the release and update the ticket.
5 Operations team Inform the Noc-Managers about the update.

Update the ticket.

6 Operations team Close the GGUS ticket after a week of the deployment only if the release was successful.

Revision History

Version Authors Date Comments
Alessandro Paolini 2016-03-22 procedure revised and made some changes
Alessandro Paolini 2016-07-25 added the new AAI in the tools list
Baptiste Grenier 2018-10-01 Introduced usage of new ticket category "release"
Alessandro Paolini 2018-10-11 Updated the list of services under scope; some typos corrections.
Baptiste Grenier 2018-11-20 Existing CHM ticket should be mentioned when applicable; rephrase to use services and services components terms instead of tools.
Baptiste Grenier 2018-11-29 Introduce specific steps for emergency releases. Slightly re-organise steps for standard releases.
Baptiste Grenier 2019-09-18 Various clarifications/simplification using formal terms. Update procedure statement. Drop old instructions for providers that have been replaced by CHM documentation.