Create containers for deployment automation

[teolemon]

Who for

• Backend Developers

  What

  Other projects

• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying Open Beauty Facts (prod) automatically
• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying Open Beauty Facts (dev) automatically
• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying Open Pet Food Facts (dev) automatically
• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying Open Pet Food Facts (prod) automatically
• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying Open Products Facts (dev) automatically
• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying Open Products Facts (prod) automatically

Producer Platform

• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying the producer platform (dev) automatically
• [ ] Create a container to enable deploying the producer platform (prod) automatically

  Why

• To save deployment time (8 times 30 mins)
• To ensure we update all of our deployments regularly
• To ensure we can test all projects before deploying

Blocking

• https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues/5511

[ocervell]

We would need the estimates for how big the currently running versions of those apps are, and then open one request / container so that we can track them in our main table referencing all VM requests.

[stephanegigandet]

Before creating tons of containers, I would suggest to do things incrementally, so that we can have a better idea of how things will work, as there are still a lot of open questions / things that we have not tested.

We can do things in this order:

1. Deploy a OFF pre-prod environement (.net) with a full scale database of products (MongoDB + product files + image files).
2. Test it out completely: from a functional point of view (live requests, batch operations etc.) but also from a performance point of view. In particular we need to see how well MongoDB works on the OVH cluster, when there is a full scale DB. We also need to load test the website.
3. If things go well, proceed with Open Pet Food Facts (smaller and less visible). First a preprod environment.
4. Try to migrate the production Open Pet Food Facts to a container.
5. See how things turn out, if things break when we have tons of crawling robots etc.