🧪 VS Code beta

[jacobwoffenden]

User Story

As a Analytical Platform product engineer
I want to launch a private beta
So that we can iron out any bugs, improve documentation, or add features

Value / Purpose

This is the first major feature that Analytical Platform have released for a while, so we're trying to do it in a proper phased way

Useful Contacts

@jacobwoffenden

User Types

Analytical Platform product engineering

Hypothesis

If we release VS Code to a select group of Analytical Platform users
Then we can gather feedback, squash bugs, improve documentation

Proposal

Run a month long beta for VS Code, release to select group of Analytical Platform users

Additional Information

Follows on from #3210

VS Code Beta Rollout Google Sheet

helm upgrade --install \
  --wait \
  --timeout 10m0s \
  --reuse-values \
  --namespace user-${USERNAME} \
  --version 0.1.1 \
  provision-user-${USERNAME} \
  ./charts/provision-user

Definition of Done

• Slack channel created analytical-platform-vscode-beta
• Users added
• provision-user chart patched for 0.1.1 for users
• VS Code released via Control Panel Production to users
• Feedback gathered
• Any bugs squashed
• Documentation improved

[jacobwoffenden]

28/02/24 summary:

• Users added to Slack channel
• Users added to Google Sheet
• v2.5.1 of Control Panel released to production https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/analytical-platform-flux/pull/1239
• provision-user chart patched to 0.1.1 for @jacobwoffenden
• Unable to deploy VS Code, times outs in the Control Panel UI
  • https://ministryofjustice.sentry.io/issues/4027337775/?project=5606313&query=is:unresolved&statsPeriod=14d&stream_index=1
  • https://ministryofjustice.sentry.io/issues/4027343292/?project=5606313&query=is:unresolved&statsPeriod=14d&stream_index=0

[jacobwoffenden]

29/02/24:

• Fixed deployment issue in production via https://github.com/ministryofjustice/analytics-platform-helm-charts/pull/740
• Issue found in provision-user charts for anthonycody, phil-hall-moj and robinl. They efs-sc set in the EFS PVC, but the chart doesn't have that, so we manually amended to chart with it to patch these users

The script we used:

#!/bin/bash

usernames=("user1" "user2")

for USERNAME in "${usernames[@]}"
do
  helm upgrade --install \
    --wait \
    --timeout 10m0s \
    --reuse-values \
    --namespace user-${USERNAME} \
    --version 0.1.1 \
    provision-user-${USERNAME} \
    ./charts/provision-user
done

[Gary-H9]

Tagging @YvanMOJdigital in relation to User Research resourcing.

[Gary-H9]

Added Priya + Michael Hodge to beta. Noted in google sheet. Updated provision-user charts for both users.

[Gary-H9]

Added a number of users to the Private Beta, will include names here when I have them. Update Google Sheet.

[jacobwoffenden]

12/03/24 summary:

• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/analytics-platform-helm-charts/pull/741
• 🚚 Move first-run-notice function analytical-platform-visual-studio-code#26

13/03/24 summary:

• ♻️ Backup and restore Bash profile analytical-platform-visual-studio-code#27
• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/analytics-platform-helm-charts/pull/742
• https://github.com/ministryofjustice/analytics-platform-helm-charts/pull/743

[Gary-H9]

Add two more users. Updated sheet.

[Ed-Bajo]

Carry out user research on the release of the VS Code.