Create a demo / testing deployment

[jooola]

In order to have direct feedback of the current state of the code living in master, I propose that we continuously build and deploy Libretime on a demo / testing deployment.

In my opinion this would require the project to have:

• container images for each app, so we build and the host simply auto update the images,
• sample data that can be inserted in the stack if a big failure occur, and we need to reset the stack,
• a shared dashboard where we can graph, explore the logs and metrics of that stack (I am thinking about grafana + loki + prometheus).

The question is who can host this ? Do we want to put money in a Linode/Digital Ocean/Hetzner/[insert any other provider...] to run this ?

[paddatrapper]

We have the funds, so hosting on DO/GCP/AWS/Linode/Hetzner/some other provider is probably the way to go. Just need to finalise the spending policy (though infra spending is very uncontroversial)

[jooola]

We actually do not require the container images to exist in order to maker this work. Using the ansible role for libretime would also make it work smoothly !

[jooola]

Should we have a dedicated repository for the testing/demo deployment files or should we use the main repository ?

[jooola]

This requires a few subdomains too, I would go for demo.libretime.org and maybe (ubuntu|debian).testing.libretime.org

[paddatrapper]

@hairmare will need to organise that

[paddatrapper]

Probably a new repo that has a deployment pipeline triggered by commits to this repo

[jooola]

Sorry to bother @hairmare, but we really need you on this one.

[jooola]

@paddatrapper We could buy libretime.dev and use that instead of libretime.org, and only keep libretime.org for public facing urls ?

[paddatrapper]

Yeah, happy to do that

[paddatrapper]

Funding request for the infrastructure to do this: libretime/organization#8

[jooola]

Yeah, happy to do that

Let's annoy @hairmare some more and see if we can get in touch though twitter.

[hairmare]

Let's annoy @hairmare some more and see if we can get in touch though twitter.

That makes sense :) As noted in libretime/organization#7 i'm trying to get you a zone transfer and will update asap once i have one.

If you already know the records for demo. and the *.testing. domains i'll happily set up as soon as i can find a browser that still works with the DS admin currently in use.

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