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-This is a work in progress.
-
-Eventually, this repo will be self-deploying, but it is currently in
-the process of being bootstrapped.
-
-Manual steps for bootstrapping:
-
-# Install certmanager
-
-kubectl create namespace cert-manager
-kubectl label namespace cert-manager certmanager.k8s.io/disable-validation=true
-kubectl apply --validate=false -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v0.12.0/cert-manager.yaml
-kubectl apply -n cert-manager -f letsencrypt.yaml
-
-# Install mariadb
-
-kubectl create namespace mariadb
-
-Use Google cloud click to deploy
-TODO: find a better HA sql database operator
-
-kubectl port-forward svc/mariadb-mariadb --namespace mariadb 3306
-mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root -p
-create database zuul;
-GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zuul.* TO 'zuul'@'%' identified by '<password>' WITH GRANT OPTION;
-
-# Install Zuul
-
-gcloud compute addresses create zuul-static-ip --global
-kubectl create namespace zuul
-
-# Bind k8s service accounts to gcp service accounts
-kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace zuul logs
-kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace zuul nodepool
-kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace zuul zuul
-
-gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
-  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
-  --member "serviceAccount:gerritcodereview-ci.svc.id.goog[zuul/logs]" \
-  zuul-logs@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
-gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
-  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
-  --member "serviceAccount:gerritcodereview-ci.svc.id.goog[zuul/nodepool]" \
-  nodepool@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
-gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
-  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
-  --member "serviceAccount:gerritcodereview-ci.svc.id.goog[zuul/zuul]" \
-  zuul-63@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
-kubectl annotate serviceaccount \
-  --namespace zuul logs \
-  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=zuul-logs@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
-kubectl annotate serviceaccount \
-  --namespace zuul nodepool \
-  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=nodepool@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
-kubectl annotate serviceaccount \
-  --namespace zuul zuul \
-  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=zuul-63@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
-# create a service account for self-deployment
-
-kubectl -n zuul create serviceaccount zuul-deployment
-kubectl create clusterrolebinding zuul-deployment-cluster-admin-binding \
-  --clusterrole cluster-admin \
-  --user system:serviceaccount:zuul:zuul-deployment
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+This repo is self-deploying.
+
+Changes to the config files or Kubernetes manifests in this repo will
+be automatically deployed by Zuul after they merge.  This is the
+preferred way to make changes.
+
+To add new projects, edit zuul/main.yaml.
+
+To add new node types, edit nodepool/nodepool.yaml.
+
+# Debugging
+
+Should something go wrong, these debugging tips may help to identify
+and correct the problem.
+
+Zuul consists of several related processes:
+
+|zuul-scheduler   | the main decision-making process; 
+|                 | listens to events and dispatches jobs
+|zuul-executor    | runs jobs; this runs the Ansible processes which do the
+|                 | work, but the actual work happens on ephemeral cloud nodes
+|zuul-web         | serves the web interface
+|nodepool-launcher| creates and deletes cloud resources as needed for
+|                 | test nodes.
+
+And this installation has one extra component not normally used in Zuul:
+
+|gcloud-authdaemon| keeps updated credentials available to
+|                 | zuul-executor for storing logs in Google Cloud
+|                 | Storage
+
+To obtain a `.kube/config` file suitable for using with `kubectl` run:
+
+    gcloud container clusters get-credentials --project gerritcodereview-ci \
+	       --zone us-central1-a zuul-control-plane
+
+After that, verify it works by listing the Zuul pods:
+
+```
+$ kubectl -n zuul get pod
+NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
+gcloud-authdaemon-4klk5                  1/1     Running   0          23d
+gcloud-authdaemon-jxcc4                  1/1     Running   0          23d
+gcloud-authdaemon-p8x74                  1/1     Running   0          23d
+nodepool-launcher-gcs-5755c9b745-hqmcz   1/1     Running   0          23d
+zuul-executor-0                          1/1     Running   0          9d
+zuul-scheduler-0                         1/1     Running   0          9d
+zuul-web-548696d575-b4vrf                1/1     Running   0          9d
+```
+
+## Logs
+
+All components log to stderr, so to see the logs, run something like:
+
+    kubectl -n zuul logs zuul-scheduler-0
+
+To trace events through the various components, there are two helpful
+identifiers: the event ID and, once builds have been started, the
+build ID.  Each event from Gerrit which arrives at Zuul is assigned a
+unique ID by Zuul, and all subsequent logged actions related to that
+event are associated with the event ID (or at least, that's the idea;
+there may still be some log lines that are relevant but omit an event
+ID -- if you come up short, you may need to expand your search scope).
+
+An example entry with an event ID:
+
+    2021-06-11 09:29:01,019 INFO zuul.Pipeline.gerrit.check: [e: a5d9669ace3b438782a05f82faa63daa] Adding change <Change 0x7ff3040a94c0 plugins/code-owners 309042,2> to queue <ChangeQueue check: plugins/code-owners> in <Pipeline check>
+
+The event ID is in brackets and prefixed with "e:" for brevity.
+
+An event ID may cause multiple builds of jobs to run.  You can narrow
+build-related log entries down by using the build UUID.  Here's an example with both kinds of IDs:
+
+    2021-06-11 09:57:54,464 INFO zuul.Scheduler: [e: a5d9669ace3b438782a05f82faa63daa] [build: 918d2c80e25c4f08a0f1c394cb188630] Build complete, result SUCCESS, warnings []
+
+These IDs are useful for finding relevent entries within a single
+component, as well as across components (for instance, as the
+scheduler hands of processing of a build to the executor).
+
+If you are debugging a problem with a job, the executor has the
+ability to enable verbose logs from Ansible (equivalent to passing
+-vvv to the ansible-playbook command).  To turn this on run:
+
+    kubectl -n zuul exec zuul-executor-0 -- zuul-executor verbose
+	
+To disable it, run:
+
+    kubectl -n zuul exec zuul-executor-0 -- zuul-executor unverbose
+
+## Restarting
+
+To perform a complete hard-restart of the system, run the following commands:
+
+    kubectl -n zuul delete pod -l app.kubernetes.io/name=nodepool
+    kubectl -n zuul delete pod -l app.kubernetes.io/name=zuul
+
+This will delete all of the running pods, and Kubernetes will recreate
+them from the deployment configuration.  Note that the scheduler takes
+some time to become ready, and during this time the web interface may
+be available but contain no data (it may say "Something went wrong" or
+display error toasts).  You can monitor the progress with:
+
+    kubectl -n zuul logs -f zuul-scheduler-0
+
+The log line that indicates success is:
+
+    2021-06-12 14:54:56,140 INFO zuul.Scheduler: Full reconfiguration complete (duration: 250.009 seconds)
+
+And that also gives you an idea of how long the scheduler may take to
+become ready.  At this point, you may need to reload the status page
+in order for it to work.
+
+(Note: Our current focus of Zuul development is an HA scheduler so
+that all of Zuul can be restarted in a rolling fashion.)
+
+# Additional Help
+
+Feel free to contact James Blair (corvus) in Gerrit Slack, or the
+wider Zuul community in #zuul on the OFTC IRC network, or the
+zuul-discuss@lists.zuul-ci.org mailing list.
+
+# Appendix: Manual steps for bootstrapping
+
+These steps are not required for ongoing maintenance; they were
+performed to initially prepare the environment.  Any changes should be
+made to the declaritive code in this repo and automatically applied by
+Zuul.
+
+## Install certmanager
+
+kubectl create namespace cert-manager
+kubectl label namespace cert-manager certmanager.k8s.io/disable-validation=true
+kubectl apply --validate=false -f https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/releases/download/v0.12.0/cert-manager.yaml
+kubectl apply -n cert-manager -f letsencrypt.yaml
+
+## Install mariadb
+
+kubectl create namespace mariadb
+
+Use Google cloud click to deploy
+TODO: find a better HA sql database operator
+
+kubectl port-forward svc/mariadb-mariadb --namespace mariadb 3306
+mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 -u root -p
+create database zuul;
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON zuul.* TO 'zuul'@'%' identified by '<password>' WITH GRANT OPTION;
+
+## Install Zuul
+
+gcloud compute addresses create zuul-static-ip --global
+kubectl create namespace zuul
+
+## Bind k8s service accounts to gcp service accounts
+kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace zuul logs
+kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace zuul nodepool
+kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace zuul zuul
+
+gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
+  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
+  --member "serviceAccount:gerritcodereview-ci.svc.id.goog[zuul/logs]" \
+  zuul-logs@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+
+gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
+  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
+  --member "serviceAccount:gerritcodereview-ci.svc.id.goog[zuul/nodepool]" \
+  nodepool@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+
+gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding \
+  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
+  --member "serviceAccount:gerritcodereview-ci.svc.id.goog[zuul/zuul]" \
+  zuul-63@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+
+kubectl annotate serviceaccount \
+  --namespace zuul logs \
+  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=zuul-logs@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+
+kubectl annotate serviceaccount \
+  --namespace zuul nodepool \
+  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=nodepool@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+
+kubectl annotate serviceaccount \
+  --namespace zuul zuul \
+  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=zuul-63@gerritcodereview-ci.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+
+## Create a service account for self-deployment
+
+kubectl -n zuul create serviceaccount zuul-deployment
+kubectl create clusterrolebinding zuul-deployment-cluster-admin-binding \
+  --clusterrole cluster-admin \
+  --user system:serviceaccount:zuul:zuul-deployment