First, allow using custom Django settings on a development
environment (as documented but not implemented), setting it to the
correct value of `tutor.development`. Prior to this, `tutor dev
runserver lms` would default to `tutor.production` when on a custom edX
branch.
Second, fix the documentation so the correct environment variable is
described, at the same time removing an option that doesn't seem to work.
See discussion: https://discuss.overhang.io/t/koa-dev-lms-doesnt-find-static-content/1250
We manage to get unit tests to run in a dedicated openedx-test container. Only
35 tests are failing (out of 17k). I suspect these tests are also failing in
the devstack.
`local exec` was failing with the following stacktrace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/bin/tutor", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('tutor-openedx', 'console_scripts', 'tutor')()
File "/home/regis/projets/overhang/repos/overhang/tutor/tutor/commands/cli.py", line 38, in main
cli() # pylint: disable=no-value-for-parameter
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/regis/projets/overhang/repos/overhang/tutor/tutor/commands/compose.py", line 237, in ex
ecute dc_command.callback("exec", args)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 33, in new_func
return f(get_current_context().obj, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/regis/projets/overhang/repos/overhang/tutor/tutor/commands/compose.py", line 271, in dc_command
volumes, non_volume_args = bindmounts.parse_volumes(args) File "/home/regis/projets/overhang/repos/overhang/tutor/tutor/bindmounts.py", line 73, in parse_vol
umes
context = custom_docker_compose.make_context("custom", args)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 700, in make_context self.parse_args(ctx, args)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1045, in parse_args
opts, args, param_order = parser.parse_args(args=args)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/parser.py", line 269, in parse_args
self._process_args_for_options(state)
File "/home/regis/venvs/tutor/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/parser.py", line 289, in _process_a
rgs_for_options
arg = state.rargs.pop(0)
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'pop'
- [Bugfix] Fix "Read-only file system" errors when running `tutor dev
runserver` commands on Mac OS. (again, see #392)
- [Feature] Automatically bind-mount volumes from the `volumes/` directory with
the `--volume=/...` syntax.
Looks like the `-perm /u=w` argument incorrectly includes files from the
read-only filesystem. This should be fixed by the `-writable` option.
Close #392
This introduces a new dev/local command:
tutor dev bindmount CONTAINER PATH
And a new volume syntax:
tutor dev run --volume=PATH CONTAINER
This syntax automatically bind-mounts folders from the tutorroot/volumes
directory, which is pretty nifty.
- 💥[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.
As discussed in
https://discuss.overhang.io/t/lms-worker-timeout-issue/1057/8, the
timeout of the gunicorn worker is a bit low, causing the worker to
crashloop on slower systems. By increasing the timeout to 120 seconds,
the worker should have time to come up before it gets restarted.
- 💥[Improvement] Remove `dev/local pullimages`. Instead, run `dev/local
dc pull`.
- 💥[Improvement] Add `dev dc` and `local dc` commands as thin wrappers
of the `docker-compose` CLI.
- 💥[Improvement] Remove the undocumented `local run_hook` command.
Instead, run `local init --limit=...`.
- 💥[Improvement] Remove `tutor android pullimage` command. Instead, run
`tutor images pull android`.
- [Bugfix] Fix `config save` on Windows.
- [Bugfix] Fix platform checking in user ID function
- [Bugfix] Fix dependency error during `pip install tutor` due to urllib3 incompatibility
- [Bugfix] Fix user ID checking under Windows.
- [Bugfix] Fix template rendering for Windows users.
- [Improvement] Switch to `bcrypt` for htpasswd password generation, for better portability on Windows.
- [Improvement] In the openedx production docker image, add some jitter to the gunicorn worker restart process to prevent all workers from restarting at the same time.
requests depends on urllib3<1.26.0, while urllib3==1.26.0 was just
released. We need to introduce a constraint on urllib3 to avoid the
following error when running `pip install -e`:
pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (urllib3 1.26.0
(./venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages),
Requirement.parse('urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1'),
{'requests'})
We will be able to remove this constraint once requests becomes
compatible with urllib3==1.26.0. To test this change just run `pip
install -e tutor` and then run a dummy command, such as `tutor local
stop`.
- [Improvement] Mount config and setting files in read-only mode
- 💥[Improvement] Enable unit completion tracking by default.
- [Bugfix] Run `apt update` before `apt install` when installing deps in
the openedx Dockerfile
- [Improvement] Make all commands considerably faster
- [Improvement] Make it easier to override Mongodb connection parameters
- [Bugfix] Add support for .woff and .woff2 font files in themes (thanks @mrtndwrd!)
CORS headers are no longer handled by nginx, but directly by the LMS.
This makes it possible by 3rd-party apps to easily add domain names to
the CORS whitelist, even when they are not subdomains of the LMS.
- [Feature] Add ``images printtag`` command
- [Improvement] Make it possible to override individual contact email
addresses with plugins
- [Bugfix] Replace "no-reply@LMS_BASE" email address by regular contact
email address
- [Bugfix] Disable learner records globally by default
- [Improvement] Upgrade to the latest release of MySQL 5.6
- [Improvement] Non-plugin settings added by "set" directives are now
automatically removed when the plugin is disabled (#241)
- [Improvement] Add CORS basic configuration to LMS for subdomains of
the LMS
- [Feature] Add support for `images build --add-host` option (thanks
@grinderz!)
- [Bugfix] Fix podman compatibility by replacing `docker-compose rm`
command by `docker-compose stop` when stopping containers
- [Improvement] Improve plugin data deletion
- [Improvement] Introduce the `OPENEDX_COMMON_VERSION` setting
- [Bugfix] Make it possible to run init jobs without starting the entire
platform
- [Improvement] Reduce "openedx" Docker image size with static asset
de-duplication
This is done by explicitely listing job dependencies. Unfortunately,
it's not yet possible to move `init` before `start` in `quickstart`,
because some services, such as discovery, depend on the LMS, which takes
a few seconds to boot up. Actually, discovery also depends on ngins, as
it points to "local.overhang.io" when referring to the lms.
- [Bugfix] Upgrade all services to open-release/juniper.3
- [Bugfix] Fix upload of video transcripts to S3
- [Improvement] Memorize whether the user is running a production
platform during interactive configuration
- [Bugfix] Fix incorrect loading of some resources from localhost:18000
in development
- [Bugfix] Fix Samesite=None Secure=False cookie error for users
accessing the LMS with the latest release of Google Chrome
- [Security] Apply javascript security patch ([pull
request](https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/24762))
- [Bugfix] Fix "FileError" on Scorm package upload in Scorm XBlock
- 💥[Improvement] Serve openedx static assets with
[whitenoise](http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/) instead of nginx.
This removes the `k8s-deployments-nginx-init-containers` patch. Plugins
are encouraged to implement static asset serving with Whitenoise as
well.
- [Bugfix] Fix dependency on mysql service when mysql is not activated
- [Improvement] Improve openedx Docker image build time and size with
multi-stage build
- 💥[Feature] Get rid of outdated sysadmin dashboard in LMS at /sysadmin
In the LMS, some resources where loaded from localhost:18000. For
instance: http://localhost:18000/static/images/logo.png
This was due to the fact that the LMS_BASE, LMS_ROOT_URL and thus
SITE_NAME settings are overwritten by the devstack settings, so we need
to define them again in development.
This drastically simplifies volume management, as it is no longer
necessary to manually copy static assets from the docker image to the
bind-mounted volume.
This deprecates the "k8s-deployments-nginx-init-containers" patch, as we
no longer need to init the nginx container. Plugins are encouraged to
start using whitenoise as well for serving static assets.
TODO:
- test media serving: DOES NOT WORK. Whitenoise was designed to serve a
fixed list of static files. Godammit.
- compare performances
This reduces the size of the final image from 3.25Gb to 2.8Gb. Also, it
should be faster to rebuild the image in most cases. For instance, we
will not have to re-install nodejs requirements after part of the
edx-platform repo was modified.
- [Security] Apply edx-platform upstream xss security fixes ([pull
request](https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/24568))
- 💥[Feature] Make it possible to override the docker registry for just
a few services by setting `DOCKER_IMAGE_SERVICENAME` values.
Previously, it was not possible to override the docker registry for just
one or a few services. Setting the DOCKER_REGISTRY configuration
parameter would apply to all images. This was inconvenient. To resolve
this, we include the docker registry value in the DOCKER_IMAGE_*
configuration parameters. This allows users to override the docker
registry individually by defining the DOCKER_IMAGE_SERVICENAME
configuration parameter.
See https://discuss.overhang.io/t/kubernetes-ci-cd-pipeline/765/3
The dashboard is available at /sysadmin. It's a CRUD interface for
managing users and courses.
Enabling this interface required that the DATA_DIR setting was not a
string, but a Path object.
Close #353.
In k8s, creating a user is an interactive command, so it needs to run in
exec. Thus, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE needs to be defined for this
command.
Close #344
Half of the tasks from edx.lms.core.default celery queue were being
processed by the CMS worker. Unfortunately, this CMS worker crashes on
some of those tasks. For instance, activation emails complain of a
missing "django_markup" template tag library because "xss_utils" is not
part of the installed app in the CMS.
The problem is that we need this edx.lms.core.default queue to be part
of the CELERY_QUEUES in the cms in order to send tasks from the CMS to
the LMS. The trick to resolve this situation is to ask the CMS celery
worker to not process the tasks from this queue.
To debug this issue, run in the LMS:
from student.tasks import send_activation_email
send_activation_email("{}")
Then watch the logs of the lms and cms workers. If the CMS workers picks
up this task (50% of the time prior to this change) then we have an
issue.
See:
https://discuss.overhang.io/t/reset-password-email-sent-but-activation-email-dont/690
"tutor ui" was failing miserably, printing a lot of garbled characters
in the shell. In fact, a FileNotFound error was being raised and
automatically caught by the ui command. When removing the catch all,
this was the error that was raised:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/tmp/_MEIimsqmq/wcwidth/version.json' │
This is resolved on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62155242/pyinstaller-cant-find-wcwidth-version-json-when-running-executable
This was due to incorrectly loading the coursewarehistoryextended in the
installed applications. Also, the database router in charge of routing
requests to the student_history_module database must be disabled.
In CI, the webpack-stats.json file sometimes contains just:
{"status":"compiling"}
This was due to the fact that the `subprocess.call(...)` command in
openedx-assets did not check whether the command was killed -- for lack
of memory for instance. This is resolved by replacing "call(...)" by
"check_call(...)".
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
- [Improvement] Add `dig`, `ping` utilities to openedx-dev Docker image
- [Bugfix] Resolve "Can't connect to MySQL server" on init
- [Improvement] Make it possible to customize the MySQL root username,
for connecting to external MySQL databases
- [Improvement] Upgrade Android app to v2.21.1 and enable many features,
such as downloading videos to SD card. Thanks for the help @ejklock!
- [Bugfix] Fix Android app crash when accessing course
- [Improvement] Add ability to rescore SCORM units
- [Bugfix] Fix scoring of graded SCORM units
- [Improvement] Increase maximum uploaded file size in the CMS from 10
to 100 Mb.
- 💥[Improvement] Do not deploy an ingress or SSL/TLS certificate issuer
ressource by default in Kubernetes
- [Improvement] Fix tls certificate generation in k8s
- 💥[Improvement] Radically change the way jobs are run: we no longer
"exec", but instead run a dedicated container.
- 💥[Improvement] Upgrade k8s certificate issuer to
cert-manager.io/v1alpha2
- [Feature] Add SCORM XBlock to default openedx docker image
There are too many different ways to deploy an Ingress resource and to
generate SSL/TLS certificates: it's too much responsibility to make that
decision for the end user.
Running jobs was previously done with "exec". This was because it
allowed us to avoid copying too much container specification information
from the docker-compose/deployments files to the jobs files. However,
this was limiting:
- In order to run a job, the corresponding container had to be running.
This was particularly painful in Kubernetes, where containers are
crashing as long as migrations are not correctly run.
- Containers in which we need to run jobs needed to be present in the
docker-compose/deployments files. This is unnecessary, for example when
mysql is disabled, or in the case of the certbot container.
Now, we create dedicated jobs files, both for local and k8s deployment.
This introduces a little redundancy, but not too much. Note that
dependent containers are not listed in the docker-compose.jobs.yml file,
so an actual platform is still supposed to be running when we launch the
jobs.
This also introduces a subtle change: now, jobs go through the container
entrypoint prior to running. This is probably a good thing, as it will
avoid forgetting about incorrect environment variables.
In k8s, we find ourselves interacting way too much with the kubectl
utility. Parsing output from the CLI is a pain. So we need to switch to
the native kubernetes client library.
The "Certificate" objects are no longer required. As a consequence, the
"k8s-ingress-certificates" has become useless and should be removed from
plugins.
- [Feature] Make it easy to add custom translation strings to the
openedx Docker image
- [Improvement] Make it possible to rely on a different npm registry for
faster image building
Users can now add custom translation strings to a locale folder at build
time, very much in the same way as custom themes or requirements. This
is quite convenient, although is does require quite a bit of time to
rebuild the docker images.
During an incident at npmjs.org it was extremely difficult to pull
nodejs packages -- so we made it possible to pull from a custom
registry, deployed for instance with Verdaccio (https://verdaccio.org/).
- [Bugfix] Make sure all emails (including "password reset") are
properly saved to a local file in development mode (#315)
- [Improvement] Add `openedx-development-settings` patch to patch the
LMS and the CMS simultaneously in development
- [Bugfix] Fix missing celery tasks in the CMS
In development, emails sent from edx-platform were using the
"file_email" channel from edx-ace ("edX's automated communication
engine"). This channel was failing because it tries to write to a file
located in the /edx folder, which does not exist in tutor containers. To
fix this, we configure edx-ace to rely on the django email backend,
which itself is configured to send emails to a file in development. It
turns out that this backend was also configured to store emails in a
file located in the /edx folder, so we had to add the standard
EMAIL_FILE_PATH django setting to our development settings.
It was easier to reconfigure the django file email backend than the
edx-ace file_email channel because the output path of the latter cannot
be modified by a setting.
Note that this causes all emails to be stored in local files instead of
being sent to actual recipients. This is the default behaviour in Open
edX, and indeed in most default django apps (in development). This is a
good thing! If, for some reason, developers would like to try out email
sending during development, they should modify the EMAIL_BACKEND
setting and set it to 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'.
This is quite easy to achieve with the help of a plugin:
name: sendemailsindev
version: 0.1.0
patches:
openedx-development-settings: |
# actually send emails in dev
EMAIL_BACKEND = "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend"
Close #315
