Kuali Research Releases

Kuali Research Continuous Delivery, Frequent Releases, New Architecture

Terry Durkin Kuali Research - Director of Development

Agenda ● ● ● ● ● ●

Continuous Delivery Frequent Releases Architecture Changes Integration Techniques Progress Comparison Plans for Future

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Continuous Delivery

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Continuous Delivery ● ● ● ● ● ●

Features, fixes, functionality Quality via tests: Unit, Integration, Func Small, regular changes No lag from development to deployment No upgrades Feature flags/parameters 4

DevOps ● ● ● ●

Agile Development - Kanban Mindset - Engineers responsible for ops Confidence comes from automation Fast rollout & rollback

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Twelve Factor Apps ● ● ● ●

http://12factor.net/ Concepts & Best Practices Kuali Research adopting where possible Prioritizing factors

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Frequent Releases ● ● ● ● ● ●

Open Source, public repository Monthly code releases Change log Automated testing from CD pipeline Testing for multiple DBs Accelerate contributions 9

Architecture Changes - COI + Beyond ● ● ● ●

New services are full stack javascript Node.js - Event driven, async backend React.js - Responsive front end RESTful APIs ○ Loosely coupled services ○ Strong service boundary 10

Architecture Changes ● ● ● ●

Larger than microservices Bounded Context Explicit relationships Large domains (i.e., KC) = Hard to model

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Integration Techniques ● ● ● ● ●

Growing set of APIs for Grants modules COI is all APIs Data migration Integration with other systems Stable, testable, and secure

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Kuali Research Releases KC 6.0

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Time (person months)

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JIRAs

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Regressions due to new module dev

OMG SO MANY

None.

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