2023-11-06 DevX Meetup Notes

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Scheduled Topics / Demos

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• Diana Huang : DevSpace/2U development environment work to replace devstack

  • 2U Arch BOM has been talking about replacing Devstack with something more k8s and less Docker in order to be more in sync with our prod environments

  • One tool we are demo-ing is DevSpace

    • We are trying to move registrar to devspace as a POC

    • Currently using private 2U helm charts. Discussion about whether or not we can use other helm charts or share ours

    • Currently struggling to deal with Vault, which is a 2U-specific problem

    • It can be run locally via minikube and orbstack or hosted elsewhere

    • We like DevSpace because it is commercially supported and managed by the same people who do VCluster

    • Trying not to be too glued to DevSpace in particular but use it as a test case for developing with k8s

  • Q: Does devspace need helm or just manifests?

    • A: Either, but we chose helm because that’s what we (2u) use in production. DevSpace can make its own helm charts but we haven’t gotten them to work

    • Also we think helm will be faster

  • Q: Is it SAAS or can you use it offline?

    • Both. Works on any k8s cluster, local or cloud

  • DevSpace is open source

  • Possible alternatives: Tilt, Okteto. This one looked like it would be the fastest

  • Note: community helm charts:https://github.com/openedx/openedx-k8s-harmony/

Cross Pollination

• Tools/features/opportunities

• Tips and tricks

• Roadmap news

• Kyle McCormick

  • Two new Tutor core maintainers - myself and Wahaj Akmal from Arbisoft

    • All maintainers

  • Looking for a new cookiecutter-tutor-plugin maintainer

• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

  • Not much DevX-ery recently.

  • Did discover that it’s way easier than previously thought to automatically add issues from multiple repos to a project, even across orgs. This may only be useful for 2U

    • How to have issues and pull requests added to GitHub Projects

  • Tim is working on a plugin that allows Slack to be notified when waffle settings change. Not sure how open it is to the community but it hopefully is just a matter of configuring your webhooks

• Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)

  • https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/04/boost-your-git-dx-out-now/ (same author as https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/byddx , also of potential interest)

• Diana Huang

  • Devspace updates listed above

Challenges

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• Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)

  • Bitrot in cookiecutters

  • https://github.com/openedx/edx-cookiecutters/issues/404

  • Also - daylight savings end playing havoc on meeting schedule

• Meeting captain: Transpose action items into the “Action Item” section below.

Successes

• DevExp wins!

• Kyle McCormick

  • Bok Choy’s gone from edx-platform

  • Merged xblock-utils into XBlock repo

Suggested Action Items

Last Time:

• Kyle McCormick pushing for better use of “!” in conventional commits
• https://discuss.openedx.org/t/reminder-mark-your-breaking-change-with-an-exclamation-point/11494
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This Time:

• Kyle McCormick try Colima
• (FYI OrbStack is still in 2U vendor review)
• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated) Consider making the devstack channel public
• Becca to announce in the 2u channel that there’s an openedx channel that they should use for non-private issues
• Rebecca Graber (Deactivated) to check Tutor on ARM again-again (userid thing is fixed)

• Meeting captain: Move any remaining action item’s to next week’s minutes.

Look at the board

https://github.com/openedx/wg-developer-experience/issues

After the meeting…

• Make an agenda for next time (copy the template).

• Axim: Paste in the Meet link once it’s ready.

• Paste these notes and next week’s agenda in #wg-developer-experience