BitOps Community Meeting (12 Oct 2022): v2.1.0 Release, Roadmap

[arm4b]

We invite everyone (developers, adopters, or just curious people) to join the bi-weekly BitOps Community 1 hour Meeting on Wednesday, 12 Oct 2022, 12:00 PM US East to discuss the ongoing project developments, updates, and plans, share use cases and stories or ask/answer questions about BitOps tool.

See #288 for more info on how to join.

Agenda

Follow-ups from the previous #306 Meeting

• BitOps landing page (@mickmcgrath13 @armab )
  • BitOps 1-3min intro Video (@PhillypHenning)
• Update the BitOps HeyEmoji blog to v2 (@armab)
• Trying Twitch: BitOps HeyEmoji demo (@dylan-bitovi, @ccapell, @PhillypHenning)

v2.1.0 Release

• Terraform version its too low #307
• Install the latest Terraform version bitops-plugins/terraform#7
• Install latest Helm version bitops-plugins/helm#4
• Install latest Kubectl version bitops-plugins/kubectl#2
• Install latest Ansible version bitops-plugins/ansible#2
• Add exit_code to the messages doc and some logging improvements #314
• Milestone Tracker: https://github.com/bitovi/bitops/milestone/7

Roadmap #245 & Development Discussions

• Create a Roadmap page (docs)?
• Create a Roadmap project: https://github.com/bitovi/bitops/projects/6
• Plugins Versioning:
  • Plugin vs Tool Versioning Strategy #206
  • Set the plugin version on custom image build #315
  • Dynamically install plugin version on runtime (deploy) #316
• Security: BitOps Plugin support for private repos #60
• Security: Parse passwords / credentials out of logging output #208
• Known Bugs:
  • https://github.com/bitovi/bitops/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22bug+🪲%22
• Project Quality as KPI
  • Documentation:
    • Refactor: Development & Plugins & About sections in the Docs #282
    • Documentation: Getting Started Guide #302
    • Documentation: BitOps vs Other Tools #303
    • The 5 W's of open source #143
    • Plugins configuration docs: format parameters as a table #280 (@ccapell?)
    • Cleanup docs from TODOs, remove unimplemented features
  • Testing
    • BitOps Unit Tests #286
    • Code Linting (Python) #271
    • Setup Code Coverage % #287
  • CI/CD
    • CI/CD Refactoring & Release pipeline #293
    • Plugins: Testing / Validation and CI/CD #224
  • Config Schema Issues:
    • schema
  • Stability
  • Feature consistency
• BitOps CLI: Ops Repo Generator #173
• Feature: Run a Deployment sub-step #318
• Ops Repo Composability (needs a dedicated issue w description)
• Default folder support follow-up

[mickmcgrath13]

Call notes

General

• Reviewed the landing page revamp draft
  • BitOps video to be completed recording today (@PhillypHenning)
• HeyEmoji blog update for V2
  • some inconsistencies found already
  • issues have been creating

Twitch

• HeyEmoji focused - ease of deploy and get the value out of it. bitops in the background
• stackstorm on EKS deployment
• update an ops repo from v1 to v2
• repo cleanup
  • taking existing terraform and drop it into bitops (how to reorganize bad IaC)

2.1 release

• Milestone: https://github.com/bitovi/bitops/milestone/7
• migrated plugins to use latest version of tools
• they should be able to pin somehow, still
• Document Latest Tool Versions packaged in the Omnibus image #317
• Set the plugin version on custom image build #315
• Dynamically install plugin version on runtime (deploy) #316
• Aim to release this week
• @PhillypHenning to wrap up this today: Add exit_code to the messages doc and some logging improvements #314
• twitter and linkedin updates once we release

Roadmap discussion

review roadmap items in initial post of this discussion and move items to https://github.com/bitovi/bitops/projects/6

to follow up internally

• Landing Page
  • with survey for feedback
• Marketing