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| + | ==Upgrade Plan== | ||
| + | There's a bit of time-pressure to get the upgrade working because of a [https://portswigger.net/research/stealing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp security vulnerability] in the RC version that just happened to be what we upgraded to, but I also don't want to crash the server again (as happened yesterday). | ||
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| + | The team agrees that we need a test-deployment process. The broad outlines I've worked out: | ||
| + | * live image the TC server | ||
| + | * spin up a copy, and reconfig it to be dev.toot.cat | ||
| + | * make sure it's running ok as-is (data might have gotten munged by being live-imaged; if so, can do a pg data export/import) | ||
| + | * reconfig Nix to target dev.TC | ||
| + | * run the upgrade | ||
| + | * look at dev.TC and see if everything runs ok | ||
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| + | Preparation needed before this can work: | ||
| + | * modify Nix scripts so they can switch target servers easily | ||
| + | * figure out what changes need to be made to the server image in order to run properly as dev.TC instead of TC | ||
| + | * write a subscript to automate those changes | ||
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| + | Meanwhile, I need to do a little research to figure out how to nicely ask {{l/htyp|Git}} to compare two existing commits for me. (All of the relevant commits are {{l/htyp|Git/tag|tagged}}, fortunately.) | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 16 November 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 (#320)
Upgrade PlanThere's a bit of time-pressure to get the upgrade working because of a security vulnerability in the RC version that just happened to be what we upgraded to, but I also don't want to crash the server again (as happened yesterday). The team agrees that we need a test-deployment process. The broad outlines I've worked out:
Preparation needed before this can work:
Meanwhile, I need to do a little research to figure out how to nicely ask Git to compare two existing commits for me. (All of the relevant commits are tagged, fortunately.) |