Implementation Plan August 18, 2009
Personnel
Programmer is Thomas Amsler
QC is Sandra
Preparation for production release
(Programmer) Copy over sakai, gb2, and properties tags to non-release-candidate version
svn copy https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai/tags/sakai_2-5-x-prod-019-RC4 https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai/tags/sakai_2-5-x-prod-019
svn copy https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/tags/1.0.0-rc4/ https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/gradebook2/tags/1.0.0
svn copy https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai-properties/tags/sakai-properties-2-5-x-prod-019-RC4 https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai-properties/tags/sakai-properties-2-5-x-prod-019
on sakaiprod1:~/config-staging do: cp sakai.properties sakai.properties-prod-018
(Programmer) Export sakai.properties and toolOrder.xml from https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai-properties/tags/sakai-properties-2-5-x-prod-019 onto sakaiprod1 ~/config-staging
(Programmer) Check out https://mware.ucdavis.edu/svn/ucd-sakai/sakai/tags/sakai_2-5-x-prod-019 onto sakaiprod1 ~/src and build with patches
During maintenance window
(S - 10 min Sandra) Set DB markers.
(S + 0 min Programmer) Put all application servers into maintenance mode and shutdown Sakai on each one
(S + 2m Prabhu) Backup production DB
(S + 30m Prabhu) Apply DB scripts
(S + 35m Programmer) Deploy sakai release tag via setup-sakai-node.sh to sakaiprod1.
(S + 40m Programmer) Restart sakaiprod1 sakai instance
(S + 45m QC) Verification
Make sure that both Gradebook 2 and the Sakai Gradebook are still functional
Make sure Gradebook 2 still functions per my old AAS sites (can't submit grades here)
Make sure sample of Summer Session 2 pilot participants still have Gradebook 2 and it looks the same as it did before the upgrade.
Programmer will check for any errors that may have been created during the roll out.
(S + 55m Programmer) Deploy release tag via setup-sakai-node.sh to sakaiprod2 . . . sakaiprod6, and sakaiprodmail1.
(S + 60m Programmer) Start Sakaiprod2 . . . sakaiprod6, and sakaiprodmail1.
(S + 65m Programmer) Take smartsite-prod out of maintenance mode
(S + 70m Sandra) Send Release Management email
Fall-back Procedure (If needed) Time D is the decision time made to fallback
(D + 0m Programmer) Shutdown Sakai on smartsite-prod
(D + 2m Prabhu) Restore production DB
(D + 2m Programmer) Remove sakai.properties from config-staging and rename sakai.properties.018 to sakai.properties
(D + 5m Programmer) Deploy previous tag on head node and all other app servers via setup-sakai-node.sh
(D + 50m Programmer) After DB has been restored, restart sakai head node after verifying with DBA that restore is complete
(D + 55m ProjManmgt) check database marker
(D + 60m Programmer) Restart sakai on remaining nodes
(D + 65m Programmer) Take application servers out of maintenance mode