[Epic] GCP 8.0 - Githubissues

guineveresaenger commented 2 months ago

Overview

Safely and swiftly deliver Pulumi's version of the upstream major GCP provider release. Upstream Announcement: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/issues/18300

Key KPIs

Within 2 months, a majority of users have upgraded to the new major version with success and no regressions.
Maintainers can reference a standardized process for this kind of release in the future

Key Stakeholders

@iwahbe @guineveresaenger @VenelinMartinov @mjeffryes @pulumi/docs - we will update examples and templates, and create a blog post @pulumi/customer-engineering - we would love to identify beta testers and request feedback 🙏

Key Deliverables

Before the upstream release

Prepare and thoroughly test a prerelease based on an upstream prerelease if at all possible
Audit patches and create issues for any resulting work
Once the upstream release is live
The upgrade issue itself will be created automatically once the upstream release is published and should be added to this epic.
Follow the [major version release playbook](https://github.com/pulumi/platform-providers-team/blob/main/playbooks/Release%3A%20Major%20Version.md] to prepare the release branch.
Add any patch removals/updates to the release branch as separate commits
Fix any bugs discovered while testing the upgrade
Add any necessary tests
When ready to release
Cut Release v8.0.0 of pulumi-gcp
Communications: Blog post, Release Notes and Migration Guide
Documentation and Resources: All examples and teaching materials are updated to use GCP v8.0.0
Post Release
Create/update Major Tier 1 Provider Release Handbook as resulting reference for the team
Release Retrospective: what went well/what could have gone better