Commit 83c82411 authored by Yorick Peterse's avatar Yorick Peterse

Support for post deployment migrations

These are regular Rails migrations that are executed by default. A user
can opt-out of these migrations by setting an environment variable
during the deployment process.

Fixes gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#22133
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# Post deployment migrations are included by default. This file must be loaded
# before other initializers as Rails may otherwise memoize a list of migrations
# excluding the post deployment migrations.
unless ENV['SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS']
path = Rails.root.join('db', 'post_migrate').to_s
Rails.application.config.paths['db/migrate'] << path
# Rails memoizes migrations at certain points where it won't read the above
# path just yet. As such we must also update the following list of paths.
ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrations_paths << path
end
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- [What requires downtime?](what_requires_downtime.md)
- [Adding database indexes](adding_database_indexes.md)
- [Post Deployment Migrations](post_deployment_migrations.md)
## Compliance
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# Post Deployment Migrations
Post deployment migrations are regular Rails migrations that can optionally be
executed after a deployment. By default these migrations are executed alongside
the other migrations. To skip these migrations you will have to set the
environment variable `SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS` to a non-empty value
when running `rake db:migrate`.
For example, this would run all migrations including any post deployment
migrations:
```bash
bundle exec rake db:migrate
```
This however will skip post deployment migrations:
```bash
SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS=true bundle exec rake db:migrate
```
## Deployment Integration
Say you're using Chef for deploying new versions of GitLab and you'd like to run
post deployment migrations after deploying a new version. Let's assume you
normally use the command `chef-client` to do so. To make use of this feature
you'd have to run this command as follows:
```bash
SKIP_POST_DEPLOYMENT_MIGRATIONS=true sudo chef-client
```
Once all servers have been updated you can run `chef-client` again on a single
server _without_ the environment variable.
The process is similar for other deployment techniques: first you would deploy
with the environment variable set, then you'll essentially re-deploy a single
server but with the variable _unset_.
## Creating Migrations
To create a post deployment migration you can use the following Rails generator:
```bash
bundle exec rails g post_deployment_migration migration_name_here
```
This will generate the migration file in `db/post_migrate`. These migrations
behave exactly like regular Rails migrations.
## Use Cases
Post deployment migrations can be used to perform migrations that mutate state
that an existing version of GitLab depends on. For example, say you want to
remove a column from a table. This requires downtime as a GitLab instance
depends on this column being present while it's running. Normally you'd follow
these steps in such a case:
1. Stop the GitLab instance
2. Run the migration removing the column
3. Start the GitLab instance again
Using post deployment migrations we can instead follow these steps:
1. Deploy a new version of GitLab while ignoring post deployment migrations
2. Re-run `rake db:migrate` but without the environment variable set
Here we don't need any downtime as the migration takes place _after_ a new
version (which doesn't depend on the column anymore) has been deployed.
Some other examples where these migrations are useful:
* Cleaning up data generated due to a bug in GitLab
* Removing tables
* Migrating jobs from one Sidekiq queue to another
# See http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/development/migration_style_guide.html
# for more information on how to write migrations for GitLab.
class <%= migration_class_name %> < ActiveRecord::Migration
include Gitlab::Database::MigrationHelpers
DOWNTIME = false
# When using the methods "add_concurrent_index" or "add_column_with_default"
# you must disable the use of transactions as these methods can not run in an
# existing transaction. When using "add_concurrent_index" make sure that this
# method is the _only_ method called in the migration, any other changes
# should go in a separate migration. This ensures that upon failure _only_ the
# index creation fails and can be retried or reverted easily.
#
# To disable transactions uncomment the following line and remove these
# comments:
# disable_ddl_transaction!
def change
end
end
module Rails
class PostDeploymentMigrationGenerator < Rails::Generators::NamedBase
def create_migration_file
timestamp = Time.now.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%I%S')
template "migration.rb", "db/post_migrate/#{timestamp}_#{file_name}.rb"
end
def migration_class_name
file_name.camelize
end
end
end
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