Backboard is a web-based tool for managing back ports of changes to maintenance branches.

Dashboard: https://backboard.crdb.dev/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/cockroachdb/backboard

Deployment

1. Before deploying, make sure you set the credentials by running the following command:

gcloud container clusters get-credentials prime --region us-east4 --project cockroach-dev-inf

1. Make sure --branch is set to the latest release branch in git in k8s/backboard.yaml.

2. If you need to apply changes made to the kubernetes manifest, run kubectl -f k8s/backboard.yaml.

3. If the app is changed or you need to update the docker image, run ./push.sh

Local development

1. Setup a local CockroachDB server:

   cockroach start-single-node --insecure --advertise-addr=0.0.0.0
   # in a separate shell
   cockroach sql --insecure -e "CREATE DATABASE backboard"

2. Create a GitHub token using your personal account. The token doesn't need any special permissions.
3. Build backboard: go build -o backboard
4. Run backboard without the --bind argument. It will run the initial synchronization.

   BACKBOARD_GITHUB_TOKEN=$token \
     ./backboard \
       --conn="postgresql://root@127.0.0.1:26257/backboard?sslmode=disable" \
       --branch=release-23.1

5. It will take quite a while for the first bootstrap to happen.
6. Run backboard

   BACKBOARD_GITHUB_TOKEN=$token \
     ./backboard --bind=0.0.0.0:3333 \
       --conn="postgresql://root@127.0.0.1:26257/backboard?sslmode=disable" \
       --branch=release-23.1

7. Open http://localhost:3333 in browser.