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SMWCon 2021, Development environments using containers

December 9, 2021 by addshore

SMWCon 2021 is happening as I write this post. I was invited to give a short talk as part of a MediaWiki and Docker workshop organized by Cindy Cicalese on day 2. As I am writing a month of blog posts I’m going to turn my slides into a more digestible and searchable online blog post.

The original slides can still be found on Google Slides, and when the conference recording is up you should find it on the associated event page.

Disclaimer

mediawiki-docker-dev was created at a hackathon Wikimedia Deutschland paid for me to attend
mediawiki-docker-dev CLI experimentation was done in my Wikimedia Deutschland working time
The mwcli tool is owned by the WMF Release engineering time (mediawiki.org, gitlab)
My mediawiki-docker-dev port to mwcli was done in my volunteer time
WBStack was created by me in my volunteer time
WBaaS will be run by WMDE in 2021

Using skaffold.dev with helmfile deployments on minikube

October 7, 2021 by addshore

Recently I setup a small skaffold.dev development environment for a platform deployed using helmfile, deployed to a GKE cluster in production that is moving towards also having a local setup using minikube.

There is an open Github issue requesting helmfile support, so my first fear was that this wouldn’t be possible. Though after a little hacking around this seemed fairly easy by using the skaffold pre deploy hooks.

Here is a quick introduction to this stack, and a solution for using skaffold with helmfile deployments on minikube before “native” support is added.