thunderbird / thunderbird/discourse-deploy
Upgrade Discourse to latest version
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Description
Tracks thunderbird/platform-infrastructure#1080.
Current pinned image: v0.1.2 (668807881758.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/discourse), referenced in three places: argocd/workloads/discourse-web.yaml, argocd/workloads/discourse-sidekiq.yaml, argocd/workloads/discourse-migrate-job.yaml.
Background
container/containers/app.yml in this repo does not set a version: override, so it inherits discourse_docker's default (templates/web.template.yml: version: latest) — every build already checks out the tip of discourse/discourse's default branch. So there is no Discourse version string to bump here. "Upgrade" means: cut a fresh build to pick up whatever changed upstream since v0.1.2, verify it, and roll it out.
Steps
- Check compatibility of the bundled/cloned plugins against current upstream
discourse/discourse:- Bundled in the base image:
openid-connect,chat,solved,presence,data-explorer, plus 30+ others. - Cloned explicitly in
app.yml'safter_codehook: discourse-prometheus (git clone --depth 1, no ref pin — also always latest). - A plugin incompatibility fails
launcher bootstrapat build time (step 3 below), not at deploy time, so a red GHA run here is the first signal.
- Bundled in the base image:
- Pick the next tag:
v0.1.3. - Tag and push:
git tag v0.1.3 && git push origin v0.1.3. This fires.github/workflows/build.yml, which runslauncher bootstrap appon anubuntu-24.04-armrunner (arm64 image, required — workloads01's default node groups are Graviton) and pushes:v0.1.3+:latestto ECR. - Confirm the build succeeded:
gh run list --workflow=build.yml -R thunderbird/discourse-deploy. - Open a PR in this repo bumping
v0.1.2→v0.1.3in all three manifests listed above (README §5 "Image upgrades" documents this as the standard rollout path — deliberately not:latestin the manifests, so a tag build doesn't silently replace running pods). - On merge, ArgoCD (
discourse-app-of-apps, defined inthunderbird/platform-infrastructure) auto-syncs the new image tomzla-eks-workloads01. - Smoke-test:
curl https://discourse.thunderbird.net/(Cloudflare may challenge — use a browser), log in as admin (creds inmzla/discourse/appvia Secrets Manager), and check Admin → Plugins for anything that silently disabled or changed behavior.
Done when
v0.1.3 is running on mzla-eks-workloads01, ArgoCD is synced clean, and the plugin list has been spot-checked post-upgrade.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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