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| author | John Cai <jcai@gitlab.com> | 2020-02-17 22:52:03 +0300 |
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| committer | John Cai <jcai@gitlab.com> | 2020-02-17 22:52:03 +0300 |
| commit | 89d5218ccc5a6536049ef9d6a8647508e4dfe477 (patch) | |
| tree | 37ae28e2f8f69c231b0f71e509c822e25a9e4d22 | |
| parent | 2e2d2f6078ab3077abadd192de101b65703abbf4 (diff) | |
| parent | fe657a35c971e95c20e35dc98746f0d87b665ebd (diff) | |
Merge branch 'zj-feature-flag-docs' into 'master'
Document Gitaly's use of feature flags
See merge request gitlab-org/gitaly!1814
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PROCESS.md | 17 |
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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Gitaly requires Go 1.12.13 or newer and Ruby 2.6. Run `make` to download and compile Ruby dependencies, and to compile the Gitaly Go executable. -Gitaly uses `git`. Versions `2.21.0`, `2.22.0` and `2.24.0` are supported. +Gitaly uses `git`. Versions `2.22.0` and `2.24.0` are supported. ## Configuration diff --git a/doc/PROCESS.md b/doc/PROCESS.md index ebb38d54d..46616e76b 100644 --- a/doc/PROCESS.md +++ b/doc/PROCESS.md @@ -1,5 +1,22 @@ ## Gitaly Team Process +### Feature flags + +Gitaly uses feature flags to safely roll out features in production. Feature +flags are part of the `context.Context` of each RPC. The `featureflag` package +will help you with flow control. + +Feature flags are [enabled through chatops][enable-flags]. For Gitaly, you have +to prepend `gitaly_` to your feature flag when enabling or disabling. For example: +to enable the feature flag "mep_mep", you run: + +`/chatops run feature set gitaly_mep_mep true` + +For customers, who don't use chatops, an [HTTP API is available][ff-api]. + +[enable-flags]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/controls.html +[ff-api]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/features.html#features-flags-api + ### Gitaly Releases Gitaly uses [SemVer](https://semver.org) version numbering. |