GitLab Gitlab 12.8 Release Kickoff, 16 Jan 2020

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From YouTube: GitLab 12.8 Kickoff - Release:Progressive Delivery

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Kickoff Video for 12.8 devops::release , group::progressive delivery
https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/boards/1454481?milestone_title=12.8&&label_name[]=devops%3A%3Arelease&label_name[]=group%3A%3Aprogressive%20delivery

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Hi, my name is Erica Lewinsky and I'm the product manager for the release stage, specifically for the progressive delivery group today, I want to walk through some of the functionality that we're going to be delivering in 12.8.

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So let's get started so the first feature that I want to talk about is support, predefined types, AWS, environment variables- and this is closely tied to our theme for native natively, supporting cloud deployments and specifically our streamline AWS deployments. Epic.

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What we want to do is make it easier for the user to pass variables to AWS and in order to do so, we're adding a new setting under CI CD variables that allows you to select AWS variable from the drop-down list, and it will already be pre-populated with these values that you can select and enter the token value.

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The next feature that I want to talk about is allow only forward deployments. This is an extension to our incremental rollout for kubernetes that we already have supported to today, and what this is going to solve is a problem that we have when we have delayed for concurrent deployment to the same environment, and what this is going to do is going to make sure this is the latest deployment and only then allow to roll it out. So you don't have folder rollouts overriding the latest rollouts.

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So we're very excited about this feature and we think it's gonna make make it very, very easy to use incremental rollout and the next two features that I want to talk about are very closely tied and they're relating to feature flags. So the first one is the coupling feature: flag, environments and strategies and basically we're doing a big you extra factor in order to be able to support more flexibility in the future.

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So the way that feature flex looks today that we have this feature flag dashboard, and we can see basically that that the feature flag status, we can see the feature flag itself and the environment specs that are currently connected to it at the moment. There's a limitation where only one strategy is actually set in place per environment and we want to be able to support multiple strategies going forward. So the first step to this is decoupling, the close tie between environment and strategies, and- and this is the way the new UI is going to look.

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So we are gonna, have a strategies page and in the strategy you can toggle on or off your feature flag. You can set the type of the strategy, so it could be percent rollout. It could use your ID or others in the future and then on the bottom of the page, you can see which environments are tied to the strategy and the way that you add another environment is by pressing the plus sign and adding the new environment, and this way you can see for every strategy how many environments are currently supported.

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The next feature, which is a continuation of this one, is mulling multiple strategies for environments, so you might want to have a combination of both user ID and percentage rollout, and we want to allow this to happen so very similar to the previous UI, but with an additional add strategy button, you can now see on the strategy page all the different combinations of strategies we have.

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You can set the specific configurations per strategy, so 4% agility percent for user ID. It would be the user ID isn't coming up shortly. It would be a group strategy and then each one of these strategies has the environments that are tied to it and they can be added and removed at any time. So we're really excited about this. We think this is going to make a big change in future flags and we're very excited about all this new functionality that we're adding and 12.8.

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As always, your feedback is always welcome, feel free to tag me in the issues themselves or send me an email at Koga, lewinsky at cute live.com, and we're looking forward to delivering this and hearing back from you.