Code updates and Infrastructure upgrades have been mostly automated so that these operations can happen rapidly. This happens via multiple github repositories and actions.

Playbooks

Playbooks are composed of an action or series of actions that constitute a a common process.

Test a new version of WordPress and/or nginx

A scheduled process is responsible for periodically checking for a new version of WordPress and nginx. This process will deploy the image to the wordpress-wordpress-run:latest image tag, from which a test suite will be run comparing the dev and latest versions, at the end of which digital-latest.apps.silver.devops.gov.bc.ca will be a copy of production with the latest version of wordpress running on it.

Check the results of the screenshot tests, and do some user testing of the site. Once satisfied with the upgrade, you can change the test and production image tags in openshift and bring down the pods in those deployments. Once the deployments are restarted with new pods, the new version of wordpress will be in place.

Workflows

Spin up a new wordpress instance

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