Summary
When the release pipeline moves the floating latest Docker tag (the promote-latest job in cicd_6-release.yml), notify the GitHub users whose commits are newly included via Slack, telling them their change is live on latest and when the evergreen-tracks reconciler will roll it out to latest-track customer environments.
Why
Developers currently have no visibility into when their merged change actually reaches a running customer environment. The evergreen-tracks reconciler already runs a predictable weekday cron for the latest track (kubernetes/cluster/*/evergreen-tracks-reconciler/cronjob-latest.yaml, 10:00 AM ET onward per cluster) — we can compute the next scheduled rollout and tell the author directly.
Approach
- New reusable workflow
cicd_comp_notify-latest-promotion.yml, called from cicd_6-release.yml right after promote-latest succeeds.
- Diffs commits between the current release tag and the previous one (via GitHub compare + commits/pulls API) to find PR authors.
- Resolves GitHub logins to Slack users via the existing
utility_slack-channel-resolver.yml.
- Looks up which environments are currently subscribed to the
latest track via the dotUsage GET /environments API (tenant/customer names), with a generic fallback if that lookup fails.
- Computes the next weekday 10:00 AM America/New_York rollout window and includes it in the Slack message.
Out of scope
- Per-cluster exact times (message references the earliest/reference window; other regions follow later the same day).
- Live Google-Sheet-based subscription source (dotUsage already mirrors this).
Summary
When the release pipeline moves the floating
latestDocker tag (thepromote-latestjob incicd_6-release.yml), notify the GitHub users whose commits are newly included via Slack, telling them their change is live onlatestand when the evergreen-tracks reconciler will roll it out tolatest-track customer environments.Why
Developers currently have no visibility into when their merged change actually reaches a running customer environment. The evergreen-tracks reconciler already runs a predictable weekday cron for the
latesttrack (kubernetes/cluster/*/evergreen-tracks-reconciler/cronjob-latest.yaml, 10:00 AM ET onward per cluster) — we can compute the next scheduled rollout and tell the author directly.Approach
cicd_comp_notify-latest-promotion.yml, called fromcicd_6-release.ymlright afterpromote-latestsucceeds.utility_slack-channel-resolver.yml.latesttrack via the dotUsageGET /environmentsAPI (tenant/customer names), with a generic fallback if that lookup fails.Out of scope