[RELEASE] Release version 1.2.0

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Release OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 1.2.0

I noticed that a manifest was automatically created in manifests/1.2.0. Please follow the following checklist to make a release.

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This Release Issue

This issue captures the state of the OpenSearch release, its assignee is responsible for driving the release. Please contact them or add a comment on this issue for help. There are linked issues on components of the release where individual components can be tracked.

Release Steps

There are several steps to the release process, these steps are completed as the whole release and components that are behind present risk to the release. The release owner completes the tasks in this ticket, whereas component owners resolve tasks on their ticket.

Steps have completion dates for coordinating efforts between the components of a release; components can start as soon as they are ready far in advance of a future release.

Component List

To aid in understanding the state of the release there is a table with status indicating each component state. This is manually updated based on the status of the component issues.

Preparation - Ends Oct 28th

• Assign this issue to a release owner.
• Declare a pencils down date for new features to be merged. Nov 2nd is Pencils down
• Document any new quality requirements or changes.
• Finalize scope and feature set and update the Public Roadmap.
• Create a version label in each component repo.
• Create a release issue in every component repo that links back to this issue.
• Ensure that all release issues created above are assigned to an owner in the component team.

Engine and Dashboard Development - Ends Nov 2nd

• Create Jenkins workflows that run daily snapshot builds for OpenSearch.
• Create Jenkins workflows that run daily snapshot builds for OpenSearch Dashboards.
• Increment each component version to 1.2.0 and ensure working CI in component repositories.
• Complete all engine and dashboard features for release on or before Nov 2nd.

All Component Development - Ends Nov 8th

• Make pull requests to add each component to manifests/1.2.0/opensearch-1.2.0.yml and manifests/1.2.0/opensearch-dashboards-1.2.0.yml with the corresponding checks. Add OpenSearch 1.2.0 Build Manifests for next version #664
• Complete all features for release on or before Nov 8th.

Release testing - Ends Nov 16th

• OpenSearch docker images for testing
• OpenSearch-Dashboards docker image for testing
• Code complete phase (Nov 2 - Nov 8): Teams test their component within the distribution, ensuring integration, backwards compat and perf tests pass.
• Final sanity testing phase (Nov 8 - Nov 12): Final sanity testing and fixing of any issues found by teams.
• Reset Final sanity testing phase (Nov 12 - Nov 16): Reset all testing that relied on distribution downloader due to bug [Bug]: Out of date archive test distribution may be causing plugin IT test failures #953
• Release version 1.2.0 Reset Final sanity testing tracking #954
• OpenSearch 1.2.0 Release run integration test cases manually #955
• OpenSearch 1.2.0 Release run Performance test cases manually #963

Release - Ends Nov 18th Ends Nov 23

• Declare a release candidate build, and publish all test results.
• Verify all issued labeled v1.2.0 in all projects have been resolved.
• Complete documentation for this release.
• added 1.2.0 blog post project-website#516
• 1.2.0 release notes #1112
• 1.2.0 Artifacts signing and release on website #1115
• 1.2.0 Maven release #1126
  • https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-infra/pull/135
• 1.2.0 Native plugins release #1119
• [OpenSearch-Dashboards] 1.2.0 Final integration test after performance verification #1118
  • OpenSearch 1.2.0 Performance regression of 10% compared to 1.1.0 OpenSearch#1560
• [OpenSearch] 1.2.0 Final integration test after performance verification #1122
• 1.2.0 Publish Docker images #1127
• 1.2.0 Publish blog posts: https://opensearch.org/blog/releases/2021/11/launch-announcement-1-2-0/

Post Release

• Create release tags for each component.
• Update this template with any new or missed steps.
• Conduct a postmortem, and publish its results. [Retrospective] Release 1.2.0  #880
• Point the input manifest to 1.3.0 to start building 1.3.0 artifacts. Change in jenkins file
  • Start building 1.3.0 snapshot artifacts for OpenSearch #1135

Components

Overall status: Post Release 1.2.0 has been released, all post release tasks should be worked on and component release tasks closed out.
Next Step: Closing this release task, ETA Dec 13th.

Component	On track	Notes
opensearch-project/asynchronous-search#42	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/job-scheduler#66	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/alerting#182	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/cross-cluster-replication#218	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/sql#214	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/security#1459	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/observability#118	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/security-dashboards-plugin#832	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/dashboards-visualizations#26	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/reporting#167	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards#833	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/common-utils#89	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin#98	🟢	Released
opensearch-project/OpenSearch#1317	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/performance-analyzer#65	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/alerting-dashboards-plugin#118	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/k-NN#102	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/index-management#154	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/anomaly-detection-dashboards-plugin#97	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/anomaly-detection#229	🟢	All Tasks Complete
opensearch-project/dashboards-notebooks#81	⚪	Not In Release
opensearch-project/notifications#332	⚪	Not In Release

Legend

| Symbol | Meaning | | -------- | ---------- | | 🟢 | On track with overall release | | 🟡 | Missed last milestone | | 🔴 | Missed multiple milestones |

Issue tracking

State	Total	Bug	Enhancement
Open	18	0	1
Closed	278	57	46

Updated on 11/16 9:18a CST Query are accessible in the table headers

Campaigns

• Required DCO verification on pull requests project-meta#17
• Correct copyright notices to reflect Copyright OpenSearch Contributors .github#21
• Use AWS OSS Maven -SNAPSHOT for plugin dependencies opensearch-plugins#45
• Add backwards compatibility tests for plugins opensearch-plugins#77
• Update plugin description blurbs opensearch-plugins#92

Release testing

To aid in release testing we are providing all teams with access to docker images of OpenSearch to aid in the rapid setup/tear down for testing, for additional discussion about test documentation see #933

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• Use Docker-Compose to setup a cluster

  • Download this gist as docker-compose.yml on your machine
  • Get latest image versions docker-compose pull
  • Start the cluster docker-compose up

• OpenSearch docker

  • Start without security
    • Docker command docker pull opensearchstaging/opensearch:1.2.0 && docker run -it -p 9200:9200 -e "discovery.type=single-node" -e "DISABLE_SECURITY_PLUGIN=true" opensearchstaging/opensearch:1.2.0
    • Connect command curl https://localhost:9200
  • Start with security
    • Docker command docker pull opensearchstaging/opensearch:1.2.0 && docker run -it -p 9200:9200 -e "discovery.type=single-node" opensearchstaging/opensearch:1.2.0
    • Connect command curl --insecure https://admin:admin@localhost:9200

• OpenSearch-Dashboards docker

  • Start without security
    • Docker command docker pull opensearchstaging/opensearch-dashboards:1.2.0 && docker run -it --network="host" -e "DISABLE_SECURITY_DASHBOARDS_PLUGIN=true" opensearchstaging/opensearch-dashboards:1.2.0
    • URL https://localhost:5601
  • Start without security
    • Docker command docker pull opensearchstaging/opensearch-dashboards:1.2.0 && docker run -it --network="host" opensearchstaging/opensearch-dashboards:1.2.0
    • URL https://localhost:5601

• Use TARs to deploy OpenSearch Manually (Updated 2021/11/22 11:00 PST)

  • OpenSearch - Build 1127

    • arm64 [manifest] [tar]
    • x64 [manifest] [tar]

  • OpenSearch Dashboards - Build 512

    • arm64 [manifest] [tar]
    • x64 [manifest] [tar]

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