Implement SimplyTest.Me functionality on Lagoon

[Schnitzel]

Background:

• Maintainer of Simplytest.me searches a future for Simplytest.me https://www.drupal.org/project/simplytest/issues/2932684
• We think Lagoon is the perfect base for such a tool, why:
  • It allows fast spin up and spin down of individual environments
  • Each environment is completely separate of each other, no risk of one environment killing or accessing the other one
  • Each environment can be completely different (different drupal, different php, etc.)

Overall Architecture:
Important: This is generated by @Schnitzel without a huge background of knowledge about simplytest.me itself. So this might need to change.

1. Current Simplytest.me interface is reused, User clicks on "launch sandbox"
2. Simplytest Frontend talks to Lagoon API and creates a new environment for a Project
3. Simplytest somehow (tbd) tells Lagoon what the user has selected (which Drupal, which Modules, which patches, etc.)
4. Lagoon creates new environment and starts a Build (probably not the current OpenshiftBuildDeploy but another new one that is created with this project)
5. Build starts and Builds a Docker Image with the defined Core, Modules, etc. (here we might can reuse some of the already existing simplytest scripts)
6. Simplytest UI checks with Lagoon API if environment is deployed and if successful redirects the User to the generated URL

Next Steps:

• Validate Architecture
• Create individual tasks for work based on Architecture
• Find people that want to help
• Get work done

@everybody
What do you think?

[geek-merlin]

+10 from me for moving to docker architecture.
Plan seems reasonable!

[jonathanjfshaw]

Very excited to hear about this. It's a small step towards one day having a cloud IDE for drupal, would make it so much easier to test and tweak patches, increasing d.o. issue queue velocity.

[jonathanjfshaw]

There are very interesting caching possibilities with Docker, such as having an installed D8 core sitting in the Docker cache, so spinning up is very fast, just needs to install any desired modules.

[Schnitzel]

@axel-rutz thanks!
@jonathanjfshaw
oh wow, that sounds even cooler! That would actually definitely be possible to directly edit code directly in a cloud9 container or so.
Also, yes full agree, Lagoon actually shares Docker image caches among multiple projects, so a Drupal installation would be cached :)

[forethoughtde]

Sounds interesting. I would like to help out.

[theodorosploumis]

I have created https://www.distros.bid/ (using Docker) to personal replace Simplytest.me some month ago.

[Schnitzel]

As mentioned by Dries over here: https://twitter.com/Dries/status/956481436512595968

The current plan tries to keep the current SimplyTest.me Frontend UI and thinks about implementing the underlying architecture.
BUT: If some people are interested in coming up with a new UX and UI for the User Facing Simplytest.me, that would obviously also be awesome :))

[thom8]

@Schnitzel put together a very simple project utilising composer + docker + helm (k8s) -- https://github.com/thom8/simplytest

Currently, have a PoC running on GKE /w preemptible VMs to lower costs, there's no cost for the control plane, nodes can be automatically updated and set to autoscale.

Also configured to cache composer dependencies so a new instance can be spun up in ~10s., but some layer caching here could make that even faster.

Working on some docs for running the helm chart on a local cluster for easier testing.

[forethoughtde]

I am interested in coming up with new UX and UI for the user facing Simplytest.me. Even though, the current interface does the job we can better it. Any thoughts?

[jonathanjfshaw]

The answer to Dries's challenge would seem to be to have a deep link into the new simplytest that: 1) span up the new Umami install profile 2) automatically logged the user in 3) spun up very very quickly (with good feedback progress indicator if it took longer than 2 seconds) (@thom toogood's work is exciting there) If we gave Dries a strong demo experience like this, maybe he'd encourage the DA to actually make it available on D.O ( https://www.drupal.org/project/simplytest/issues/2498247). Some clever person might then be inspired to create a strong "guided tour" experience that would automatically trigger on a first visit to Umami.

…

On 25 January 2018 at 13:47, forethoughtde ***@***.***> wrote: I am interested in coming up with new UX and UI for the user facing Simplytest.me. Even though, the current interface does the job we can better it. Any thoughts? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#191 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADWYQUsGlJyAlNzpauVb1WG1iOUUVzGXks5tOIYCgaJpZM4RegCB> .

[dasrecht]

Closing this due to inactivity and due to the fact that the project has a path forward with a new maintainer.

Update: Patrick has handed over the maintainer-ship of Simplytest.me to Adam Bergstein. With this the immediate future of Simplytest.me is secured! Thank you, Adam! ❤️

via https://stories.amazee.io/save-simplytest-me-e564c13e9fb8