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single-primary/README.md

Gerrit Single Primary

This set of Templates provide all the components to deploy a single Gerrit primary in ECS

Architecture

Three templates are provided in this example:

  • cf-cluster: define the ECS cluster and the networking stack
  • cf-service: defined the service stack running Gerrit
  • cf-dns-route: defined the DNS routing for the service

Data persistency

  • EBS volumes for:
    • Indexes
    • Caches
    • Data
    • Git repositories

Deployment type

  • Latest Gerrit version deployed using the official Docker image
  • Application deployed in ECS on a single EC2 instance

Logging

  • All the logs are forwarded to AWS CloudWatch in the LogGroup with the cluster stack name. Please refer to the general logging documentation for further information on logging.

Monitoring

  • Standard CloudWatch monitoring metrics for each component
  • Application level CloudWatch monitoring can be enabled as described here
  • Prometheus and Grafana stack is not available for this recipe yet. However the work has been done for the dual-primary recipe and it could be easily adapted (you can find the relevant issue here).

How to run it

You can find on GerritForge's YouTube Channel a step-by-step guide on how to setup you Gerrit Code Review in AWS.

However, keep reading this guide for a more exhaustive explanation.

0 - Prerequisites

Follow the steps described in the Prerequisites section.

Additionally, whilst it is possible to do so by using an admin user, consider limiting access only to what is required by using a dedicated role or user to do so.

1 - Configuration

Please refer to the configuration docs to understand how to set up the configuration and what common configuration values are needed. On top of that, you might set the additional parameters, specific for this recipe.

Environment

Configuration values affecting deployment environment and cluster properties

  • SERVICE_STACK_NAME: Optional. Name of the service stack. gerrit-service by default.
  • GERRIT_INSTANCE_ID: Optional. Identifier for the Gerrit instance. “gerrit-single-primary” by default.
  • GERRIT_VOLUME_ID : Optional. Id of an extisting EBS volume. If empty, a new volume for Gerrit data will be created
  • GERRIT_VOLUME_SNAPSHOT_ID : Optional. Ignored if GERRIT_VOLUME_ID is not empty. Id of the EBS volume snapshot used to create new EBS volume for Gerrit data.
  • GERRIT_VOLUME_SIZE_IN_GIB: Optional. The size of the Gerrit data volume, in GiBs. 10 by default.

2 - Deploy

  • Create the cluster, service and DNS routing stacks:
make [AWS_REGION=a-valid-aws-region] [AWS_PREFIX=some-cluster-prefix] create-all

The optional AWS_REGION and AWS_REFIX allow you to define where it will be deployed and what it will be named.

It might take several minutes to build the stack. You can monitor the creations of the stacks in CloudFormation

  • NOTE: the creation of the cluster needs an EC2 key pair are useful when you need to connect to the EC2 instances for troubleshooting purposes. The key pair is automatically generated and stored in a pem file on the current directory. To use when ssh-ing into your instances as follow: ssh -i cluster-keys.pem ec2-user@<ec2_instance_ip>

Cleaning up

make [AWS_REGION=a-valid-aws-region] [AWS_PREFIX=some-cluster-prefix] delete-all

The optional AWS_REGION and AWS_REFIX allow you to specify exactly which stack you target for deletion.

Note that this will not delete:

  • Secrets stored in Secret Manager
  • SSL certificates
  • ECR repositories

Access your Gerrit

The Gerrit instance will be available at two different URLs, to handle HTTP and SSH traffic respectively:

  • HTTP traffic: https://<HTTP_SUBDOMAIN>.<HOSTED_ZONE_NAME>:443
  • SSH traffic: ssh://<SSH_SUBDOMAIN>.<HOSTED_ZONE_NAME>:29418

External Services

If you need to setup some external services (maybe for testing purposes, such as SMTP or LDAP), you can follow the instructions here

Docker

Refer to the Docker section for information on how to setup docker or how to publish images

Permissions

In order to deploy and destroy a single-primary recipe the invoking user needs to have the relevant permissions to perform actions on AWS resources.

The list of actions can be found here. The document can be used to create a permission policy directly in AWS.

The policy then needs to be attached to the invoking user group or alternatively to the invoking user directly.