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Infrastructure

Deployment

This application is running on GOV.UK PaaS. To deploy you need to:

1. Contact your organisation manager to get an account in dluhc-core organization and in the relevant spaces (staging/production).

2. Install the Cloud Foundry CLI

3. Login:

   cf login -a api.london.cloud.service.gov.uk -u <your_username>
   

4. Set your deployment target (staging/production):

   cf target -o dluhc-core -s <deploy_environment>
   

5. Deploy:

   cf push dluhc-core --strategy rolling
   

   This will use the manifest file

Once the app is deployed:

1. Get a Rails console:

   cf ssh dluhc-core-staging -t -c "/tmp/lifecycle/launcher /home/vcap/app 'rails console' ''"
   

2. Check logs:

   cf logs dluhc-core-staging --recent
   

Troubleshooting deployments

A failed Github deployment action will occasionally leave a Cloud Foundry deployment in a broken state. As a result all subsequent Github deployment actions will also fail with the message Cannot update this process while a deployment is in flight.

cf cancel-deployment dluhc-core

You would then need to check the logs and fix the issue that caused the initial deployment to fail.

CI/CD

When a commit is made to main the following GitHub action jobs are triggered:

1. Test: RSpec runs our test suite
2. Deploy: If the Test stage passes, this job will deploy the app to our GOV.UK PaaS account using the Cloud Foundry CLI

When a pull request is opened to main only the Test stage runs.

Setting up Infrastructure for a new environment

Staging

1. Login:

   cf login -a api.london.cloud.service.gov.uk -u <your_username>
   

2. Set your deployment target (staging):

   cf target -o dluhc-core -s staging
   

3. Create required Postgres and S3 bucket backing services (this will take ~15 mins to finish creating):

   cf create-service postgres tiny-unencrypted-13 dluhc-core-staging-postgres
   cf create-service aws-s3-bucket default dluhc-core-staging-import-bucket
   cf create-service aws-s3-bucket default dluhc-core-staging-export-bucket
   

4. Deploy manifest:

   cf push dluhc-core-staging --strategy rolling
   

5. Bind S3 services to app:

   cf bind-service dluhc-core-staging dluhc-core-staging-import-bucket -c '{"permissions": "read-only"}'
   cf bind-service dluhc-core-staging dluhc-core-staging-export-bucket -c '{"permissions": "read-write"}'
   

6. Create a service keys for accessing the S3 bucket from outside Gov PaaS:

   cf create-service-key dluhc-core-staging-import-bucket data-import -c '{"allow_external_access": true}'
   cf create-service-key dluhc-core-staging-export-bucket data-export -c '{"allow_external_access": true, "permissions": "read-only"}'
   

Production

1. Login:

   cf login -a api.london.cloud.service.gov.uk -u <your_username>
   

2. Set your deployment target (production):

   cf target -o dluhc-core -s production
   

3. Create required Postgres and S3 bucket backing services (this will take ~15 mins to finish creating):

   cf create-service postgres small-ha-13 dluhc-core-production-postgres
   cf create-service aws-s3-bucket default dluhc-core-production-import-bucket
   cf create-service aws-s3-bucket default dluhc-core-production-export-bucket
   

4. Deploy manifest:

   cf push dluhc-core-production --strategy rolling
   

5. Bind S3 services to app:

   cf bind-service dluhc-core-production dluhc-core-production-import-bucket -c '{"permissions": "read-only"}'
   cf bind-service dluhc-core-production dluhc-core-production-export-bucket -c '{"permissions": "read-write"}'
   

6. Create a service keys for accessing the S3 bucket from outside Gov PaaS:

   cf create-service-key dluhc-core-production-import-bucket data-import -c '{"allow_external_access": true}'
   cf create-service-key dluhc-core-production-export-bucket data-export -c '{"allow_external_access": true, "permissions": "read-only"}'