The hooks API had several issues which are summarized in this comment:
https://github.com/openedx/wg-developer-experience/issues/125#issuecomment-1313553526
1. "consts" was a bad name
2. "hooks.filters" and "hooks.Filters" could easily be confused
3. docs made it difficult to understand that plugin developers should use the catalog
To address these issues, we:
1. move "consts.py" to "catalog.py"
2. Remove "hooks.actions", "hooks.filters", "hooks.contexts" from the API.
3. re-organize the docs and give better usage examples in the catalog.
This change is a partial fix for https://github.com/openedx/wg-developer-experience/issues/125
Adds `from __future__ import annotations` to the top of every module,
right below the module's docstring. Replaces any usages of t.List,
t.Dict, t.Set, t.Tuple, and t.Type with their built-in equivalents:
list, dict, set, tuple, and type. Ensures that make test still passes
under Python 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9.
We introduce a new filter to implement custom commands in arbitrary containers.
It becomes easy to write convenient ad-hoc commands that users will
then be able to run either on Kubernetes or locally using a documented CLI.
Pluggable jobs are declared as Click commands and are responsible for
parsing their own arguments. See the new CLI_DO_COMMANDS filter.
Close https://github.com/overhangio/2u-tutor-adoption/issues/75
`quickstart` is being renamed to `launch` and deprecated in favor of
using `launch`. The `quickstart` function temporarily aliases to
`launch`. Further mentions of `quickstart` have been changed to
reference `launch` instead.
We are indicating that this change is breaking 💥 to encourage people to
migrate their scripts right away!
The -m/--mount option makes it possible to bind-mount volumes at runtime. The
volumes are declared in a local/docker-compose.tmp.yml file. The problem with
this approach is when we want to bind-mount a volume to a service which is
specific to the dev context. For instance: the "learning" service when the MFE
plugin is enabled.
In such a case, starting the service triggers a call to `docker-compose stop`
in the local context. This call fails because the "learning" service does not
exist in the local context. Note that this issue only seems to occur with
docker-compose v1.
To resolve this issue, we create two additional filters for
the dev context, which emulate the behaviour of the local context. With this approach, we convert the -m/--mount arguments right after they are parsed. Because they are parsed just once, we can get rid of the de-duplication logic initially introduced with the COMPOSE_CLI_MOUNTS context.
Close #711. Close also https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-mfe/issues/57.
- 💥 [Feature] Upgrade to Nutmeg: (by @regisb)
- 💥 [Feature] Persistent grades are now enabled by default.
- [Bugfix] Remove edX references from bulk emails ([issue](https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/100)).
- [Improvement] For Tutor Nightly (and only Nightly), official plugins are now installed from their nightly branches on GitHub instead of a version range on PyPI. This will allow Nightly users to install all official plugins by running ``pip install -e ".[full]"``.
- [Bugfix] Start MongoDB when running migrations, because a new data migration fails if MongoDB is not running
Commit 514e3fce22 made it so
that dev containers were to load mounts from
env/dev/docker-compose.tmp.yml. However, it did not update
the code to generates the docker-compose.tmp.yml files.
This manifested as mounts simply not working in dev mode.
Additionally, we make the docker-compose.jobs.tmp.yml files
follow the same local vs dev differentiation that
was introduced in 514e3fce22.
When mounting a directory in a dev-only container, such as the
"learning" mfe, docker-compose is failing because it is attempting to
run "docker-compose stop" in the local context -- which knows nothing
about the learning container.
To resolve this, we store tmp volumes either in the local or dev
docker-compose.yml, and load either one depending on the context.
Running `local start` while a dev platform is still running is a common sourse
of mistakes. Here we introduce a new action to automatically stop local and dev
projects whenever a project with a different name is started.
`copyfrom` copies data from a container to the local filesystem. It's similar
to bindmount, but less clunky, and more intuitive. Also, it plays along great
with `--mount`. Eventually we'll just get rid of the `bindmount` command and
the `--volume` option.
The `--mount` option is available both with `tutor local`
and `tutor dev` commands. It allows users to easily bind-mount containers from
the host to containers. Yes, I know, we already provide that possibility with
the `bindmount` command and the `--volume=/path/` option. But these suffer from
the following drawbacks:
- They are difficult to understand.
- The "bindmount" command name does not make much sense.
- It's not convenient to mount an arbitrary folder from the host to multiple
containers, such as the many lms/cms containers (web apps, celery workers and
job runners).
To address this situation, we now recommend to make use of --mount:
1. `--mount=service1[,service2,...]:/host/path:/container/path`: manually mount
`/host/path` to `/container/path` in container "service1" (and "service2").
2. `--mount=/host/path`: use the new v1 plugin API to discover plugins that
will detect this option and select the right containers in which to bind-mount
volumes. This is really nifty...
Close https://github.com/overhangio/2u-tutor-adoption/issues/43
Add `tutor dev quickstart` command, which is equivalent to
`tutor local quickstart`, but uses dev containers instead
of local production ones and includes some other small
differences for the convience of Open edX developers.
This should remove some friction
from the Open edX development setup process, which previously
required that users provision using local producation
containers but then stop them and switch to dev containers:
* tutor local quickstart
* tutor local stop
* tutor dev start -d
Document the command and its improved workflow in
./docs/tutorials/nightly.rst
Fixes overhangio/2u-tutor-adoption#58
`upgrade` had several issues, which are summarized here:
https://discuss.overhang.io/t/confusing-instructions-during-upgrade/2281/7
- The docs say that you should run quickstart, but what most people will see is
the big command tutor local upgrade --from=lilac verbatim paragraph.
- The local upgrade command should be very explicit about the fact that users
need to run quickstart.
- Maybe the name of the local upgrade command should be improved.
- When upgrading tutor from one major release to the next, there should be a
more explicit warning to inform users of what they are doing (see this other
conversation 1)
- We should tell people that they almost certainly need to enable the tutor and
the mfe plugins, if they are not enabled during upgrade.
- A link to all of the breaking changes from the changelog should be
prominently displayed during upgrade.
- The docs should emphasize that upgrading from one major release to the next
is potentially a risky endeavor and that downgrading is not possible. The docs
should also link to the changelog.
This commit has grown slightly beyond the intended scope, but the changes should be mostly positive.
- A shared cookie domain between lms and cms is no longer recommended:
https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/docs/guides/studio_oauth.rst
- refactor: clean mounted data folder in lms/cms. In Lilac, the
bind-mounted lms/data and cms/data folders are a mess because new
folders are created there for every new course organisation. These
folders are empty. As far as we know they are useless... With this
change we move these folders to a dedicated "modulestore" subdirectory;
which corresponds better to the initial intent of the fs_root setting.
- fix: frontend failure during login to the lms. See:
https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/104
- feat: move all forum-related code to a dedicated plugin. Forum is an
optional feature, and as such it deserves its own plugin. Starting from
Maple, users will be able to install the forum from
https://github.com/overhangio/tutor-forum/
- migrate from DCS_* session cookie settings to SESSION_*. That's
because edx-platform no longer depends on django-cookies-samesite. Close
https://github.com/openedx/build-test-release-wg/issues/110
- get rid of tons of deprecation warnings in the lms/cms
- feat: make it possible to point to themed assets. Cherry-picking this
change makes it possible to point to themed assets with a theme-agnostic
url, notably from MFEs.
- Install all official plugins as part of the `tutor[full]` package.
- Don't print error messages about loading plugins during autocompletion.
- Prompt for image building when upgrading from one release to the next.
- Add `tutor local start --skip-build` option to skip building Docker images.
Close #450.
Close #545.
Previously, configuration management was very confusing because we kept mixing
"base" and "defaults" configuration:
- It was difficult to make the difference between core settings that were
necessary (e.g: passwords) as opposed to others that could simply be
defaulted to.
- The order of settings in config.yml mattered: config entries that depended on
other needed to be defined later. As a consequence, Tutor was not compatible
with Python 3.5, where dict entries are not sorted.
Previously, job declarations were always loaded from local/docker-compose.yml
and local/docker-compose.jobs.yml. This meant that it was not possible to
override job declarations in dev mode. It is now the case, with
dev/docker-compose.jobs.yml and dev/docker-compose.jobs.override.yml. Neither
of these files exist yet... But who knows? we might need this feature one day.
In any case the code is much cleaner now.
Before, custom `docker_compose_func` arguments had to be passed to job runners.
This was not very elegant. Also, it prevented us from loading custom job files
in development.
Here, we adopt a better object-oriented approach, where context classes are
ordered hierarchically.
This paves the way for loading `dev/docker-compose.jobs.yml` files in `tutor
dev init` commands -- which will be necessary to fix permissions in dev/local
mode.
Limits the memory chek to the 'local quickstart' command, makes error
handling more accurate and adds warning messages for some conditions.
Also adds a mention of this in troubleshooting.rst.
Adds a check in the 'local' command group that requires at least
4 GB of RAM to be allocated to Docker when running any of the
local subcommands on macOS. This addresses a common issue where
Docker's default setting (2 GB) causes startup to crash with
misleading error messages.
When upgrading mongodb, the mongodb container takes a little while to become
ready. Running the "exec" command thus triggers an error:
docker-compose -f /path/to/env/local/docker-compose.yml -f /path/to/env/local/docker-compose.prod.yml --project-name tutor_local exec mongodb mongo --eval db.adminCommand({ setF
eatureCompatibilityVersion: "4.0" })
MongoDB shell version v4.0.24
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?gssapiServiceName=mongodb
2021-06-14T10:53:21.510+0000 E QUERY [js] Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed: SocketException: Error connecting to 127.0.0.1:27017 :: caused by :: Connection refused:
connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:356:17
@(connect):2:6
exception: connect failed
Error: Command failed with status 1: docker-compose -f /path/to/env/local/docker-compose.yml -f /path/to/env/local/docker-compose.prod.yml --project-name tutor_local exec mongodb mongo --eval db.adminCommand({ setFeatureCompatibilityVersion: "4.0" })
We add a "sleep" statement to the upgrade process to ensure that the mongodb
container is available.
I stumbled upon a bug that should have been detected by the type
checking. Turns out, considering that config is of type Dict[str, Any]
means that we can use just any method on all config values -- which is
terrible. I discovered this after I set `config["PLUGINS"] = None`:
this triggered a crash when I enabled a plugin.
We resolve this by making the Config type more explicit. We also take
the opportunity to remove a few cast statements.
Annotations were generated with pyannotate:
https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate
We are running in strict mode, which is awesome!
This affects a large part of the code base, which might be an issue for
people running a fork of Tutor. Nonetheless, the behavior should not be
affected. If anything, this process has helped find and resolve a few
type-related bugs. Thus, this is not considered as a breaking change.
It made little sense to create dedicated context classes for local/dev.
Instead, we create local/dev compose methods which can be easily reused.
Also, we renamed the "scripts" module to better reflect its function.
- 💥[Improvement] Upgrade Open edX to Koa
- 💥 Setting changes:
- The ``ACTIVATE_HTTPS`` setting was renamed to ``ENABLE_HTTPS``.
- Other ``ACTIVATE_*`` variables were all renamed to ``RUN_*``.
- The ``WEB_PROXY`` setting was removed and ``RUN_CADDY`` was added.
- The ``NGINX_HTTPS_PORT`` setting is deprecated.
- Architectural changes:
- Use Caddy as a web proxy for automated SSL/TLS certificate generation:
- Nginx no longer listens to port 443 for https traffic
- The Caddy configuration file comes with a new ``caddyfile`` patch for much simpler SSL/TLS management.
- Configuration files for web proxies are no longer provided.
- Kubernetes deployment no longer requires setting up a custom Ingress resource or custom manager.
- Gunicorn and Whitenoise are replaced by uwsgi: this increases boostrap performance and makes it no longer necessary to mount media folders in the Nginx container.
- Replace memcached and rabbitmq by redis.
- Additional features:
- Make it possible to disable all plugins at once with ``plugins disable all``.
- Add ``tutor k8s wait`` command to wait for a pod to become ready
- Faster, more reliable static assets with local memory caching
- Deprecation: proxy files for Apache and Nginx are no longer provided out of the box.
- Removed plugin `{{ patch (...) }}` statements:
- "https-create", "k8s-ingress-rules", "k8s-ingress-tls-hosts": these are no longer necessary. Instead, declare your app in the "caddyfile" patch.
- "local-docker-compose-nginx-volumes": this patch was primarily used to serve media assets. The recommended is now to serve assets with uwsgi.
Here, we upgrade the Open edX platform from Ironwood to Juniper. This
upgrade does not come with many feature changes, but there are many
technical improvements under the hood:
- Upgrade from Python 2.7 to 3.5
- Upgrade from Mongodb v3.2 to v3.6
- Upgrade Ruby to 2.5.7
We took the opportunity to completely rething the way locally running
platforms should be accessed for testing purposes. It is no longer
possible to access a running platform from http://localhost and
http://studio.localhost. Instead, users should access
http://local.overhang.io and https://studio.local.overhang.io. This
drastically simplifies internal communication between Docker containers.
To upgrade, users should simply run:
tutor local quickstart
For Kubernetes platform, the upgrade process is outlined when running:
tutor k8s upgrade --from=ironwood
By de-duplicating the code between dev.py and local.py, we are able to
support more docker-compose run/up/stop options passed from tutor. To do
so, we had to disable some features, such as automatically mounting the
edx-platform repo when the TUTOR_EDX_PLATFORM_PATH environment variable
was defined.
Régis Behmo
Carlos Muniz
Kyle McCormick
Kyle McCormick
alex.soh
Peter Parkkali
Crist Ye