Please visit Google Doc for review, wiki page will be updated after release plan is finalized.

This page describes the release, validation, and other aspects related to SDKHarness images.

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This section describes the naming scheme and location for publication of the containersimages.

Proposed repository

We propose to use gcr.io/beam, created under apache-beam-testing project, artifacts accessible publicly. SDK Harness containers go to sdk folder.

Things to know about gcr.io:

• Quotas:
  • ?It seems like gcr only has hit limit from each IP, I didn't find any documentation about image limit. But it would have size limit.
• Permissions:
  • download access - public
  • publish - limited to authorized accounts that have correct permissions under apache-beam-testing:
    • publishing the snapshots nightly might be feasible similar to how we currently publish nightly maven snapshots, by creating a Jenkins job;
    • publishing at release time can be another Jenkins job that is triggered manually by the release owner;
      • what's the process of triggering a job in such case?Depends on how many tests we want to run. If need to run many tests, it should be a Jenkins job, otherwise, we can write a shell script to automate the process.
• GCP Project:
  • apache-beam-testing
• Troubleshooting:
  • If something goes wrong with the release process:
    • ping dev@ ?
  • If something goes wrong with a customer pipeline from using the prebuilt images:
    • ping dev@ ?

Proposed naming and tagging scheme

*Java and Go will not have language version until we support multi versions.

Publication Schedule

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Snapshot images

• how do we publish the snapshots, what's the frequency?
  • automatic, when HEAD is built, nightly similar to maven snapshots, or manually?.
• when and how do we cleanup the snapshot images:
  • when you publish an image you have a new version/hash and still can use any previous versions. They take space and will count towards a quota. We need to clean them up periodically:
    • make it part of the publish job to look and delete the versions that are more than X days (or versions) old?

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• How should we build and publish the images for release versions of Beam?
  • Start with manually, as part of Beam release , and automate it later.
• Should it be a blocker for the release?
  • Should we make it part of the release and not mark release as complete until the images are published?
    • For first three release(v2.16 ~ v2.18), we can make it optional, and if all these release go well, we can make it mandatory part of the release(from v2.19).
  • Should it be done by the same release owner?
    • Yes, this document provides step by step guide about building, testing and pushing. In future, we can automate this process.
  • Should the validation be part of the release validation?
    • Yes, when we validate code base.

Docker images

Commands

This section describes the commands that are used to build, publish, run tests and examples for the images.

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$ docker -v
Docker version 18.09.3, build 774a1f4

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Run a test against containers

This is the last part of release process, at this moment, we already finished release validation, do we need to run tests against container again which is generated from the already validated code?

Running precommit tests at local

$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py2:preCommitPy2
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py35:preCommitPy35
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py35:preCommitPy36
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py35:preCommitPy37

$ ./gradlew :javaPreCommitPortabilityApi --continue --info

$ ./gradlew :goPreCommit

Run postcommit tests at local

$ ./gradlew :python2PostCommit
$ ./gradlew :python35PostCommit
$ ./gradlew :python36PostCommit
$ ./gradlew :python37PostCommit

$ ./gradlew :javaPostCommitPortabilityApi --continue --info

$ ./gradlew :goPostCommit

Publish images to GCR

Publishing images to gcr.io/beam requires permissions in apache-beam-testing project.

Please note this will create new images (not used for above testings). Since they are created from the same code, we assume the images are exactly the same.

Set repository and tag as variables:

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export REPOSITORY=gcr.io/apache-beam-testing/beam/sdk/release
export TAG=2.15.0

To build and push docker images run:

$ pwd
[...]/beam/
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:container:py2:dockerdockerPush  -Pdocker-repository-root=$REPOSITORY -Pdocker-tag=$TAG --info
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:container:py35:dockerdockerPush -Pdocker-repository-root=$REPOSITORY -Pdocker-tag=$TAG --info
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:container:py36:dockerdockerPush -Pdocker-repository-root=$REPOSITORY -Pdocker-tag=$TAG --info
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:container:py37:dockerdockerPush -Pdocker-repository-root=$REPOSITORY -Pdocker-tag=$TAG --info

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$ ./gradlew :sdks:java:container:dockerdockerPush -Pdocker-repository-root=$REPOSITORY -Pdocker-tag=$TAG --info

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$ ./gradlew :sdks:go:container:dockerdockerPush -Pdocker-repository-root=$REPOSITORY -Pdocker-tag=$TAG --info

This produces local images named

$ docker images
$REPOSITORY/python2.7:$TAG
$REPOSITORY/python3.5:$TAG
$REPOSITORY/python3.6:$TAG
$REPOSITORY/python3.7:$TAG
$REPOSITORY/java:$TAG
$REPOSITORY/go:$TAG

They can be examined by running docker commands:

$ docker image ls
$ docker run --entrypoint bash -it $REPOSITORY/python3.5:$TAG

Run a test against locally built container

Please note all following tests create new images each time, so they don't use the images we created above, however, since they are created from the same code, so we assume images are exactly same and if all tests passed with the new created images then assume images created above also pass the tests.

Running precommit tests at local

$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py2:preCommitPy2
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py35:preCommitPy35
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py35:preCommitPy36
$ ./gradlew :sdks:python:test-suites:portable:py35:preCommitPy37

$ ./gradlew :javaPreCommitPortabilityApi --continue --info

$ ./gradlew :goPreCommit

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$ ./gradlew :python2PostCommit
$ ./gradlew :python35PostCommit
$ ./gradlew :python36PostCommit
$ ./gradlew :python37PostCommit

$ ./gradlew :javaPostCommitPortabilityApi --continue --info

$ ./gradlew :goPostCommit

Publish

Publishing images to gcr.io/beam requires permissions in apache-beam-testing project.

$ docker push $REPOSITORY/python2.7:$TAG
$ docker push $REPOSITORY/python3.5:$TAG
$ docker push $REPOSITORY/python3.6:$TAG
$ docker push $REPOSITORY/python3.7:$TAG

$ docker push $REPOSITORY/java:$TAG

$ docker push $REPOSITORY/go:$TAG

Release Images Validation

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We have these test suites in Beam that utilize portability:

• precommit tests(?)
• postcommit tests(?)tests

*These tests will use default images, not the one pushed to gcr.

Manual testing

Test on Dataflow with uploaded images.

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• Do we want new images to be able to run old pipelines?
  Vice-versa?
  • This is decided by SDK, not container specific.
  • How long do we support backwards compatibility for?
    • This is decided by SDK, not container specific.

  Other verification

  • Do we sign the artifacts, images?
    • ??
  • Do we check hashes, signatures?
    • No

  Support Story

  How do we allow the images to be used?

  1. Snapshot images can be used for daily testing.
  2. Snapshot images are always created from head, so users can use beam Beam at head if they want to.
  3. Customize sdks containers on top of published images.
  4. etc...

  Do we support users using them in production as is?

  Release images can be used in production. Snapshot images can be used in production, but we don't guarantee they are as stable as release images. 

  Is there some quota for downloading the prebuilt images?

  From gCloud instruction, gcr has following quota limitationlimitations.

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  Any request sent to Container Registry has a 2 hour timeout limit. The fixed rate limits per client IP address are: 30,000 HTTP requests every 10 minutes 500,000 HTTP requests per day Container Registry uses Cloud Storage for each registry's underlying storage. Cloud Storage Quotas & Limits apply to each registry.

  
  

  Any special/extra license needs to be attached to the images?

  
  

  Report bugs

  • If something goes wrong with the release process:
    • ping dev@ 
  • If something goes wrong with a customer pipeline from using the prebuilt images:
    • ping dev@