2023-11-06 DevX Meetup Notes

Nov 6, 2023 // Today’s Date

Meet link: https://meet.google.com/eia-hvpt-mfr

Recording

Please be advised: DevX Working Group meetings are recorded.

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18pIFeSTfe-XzBPMHvzkP07Nzjlnl-MAa/view

Participants

Meeting captain: @Kyle McCormick

Notetaker: @Rebecca Graber (Deactivated)

Participants:

@Diana Huang
@Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated)
@Emad Rad

Discussion topics

Item	Notes

Item	Notes
Start the Meet recording!	<-----
Scheduled Topics / Demos	If you want to schedule topics or demos ahead of time, add them here! @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 https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/3710451733 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) (same author as , also of potential interest) @Diana Huang Devspace updates listed above
Challenges Each challenge should have a follow up action. If you have an idea for follow up actions, add it. Or if you aren’t sure, leave it blank. We’ll discuss all actions either way.	@Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated) Bitrot in cookiecutters 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 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)
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