Add support for Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24 #990
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And in Ubuntu 24, we will have brotli available through apt.
The local provisioning stopped working with Ubuntu 22. So I set up the LXC container for CI tests. The executing environment shouldn't matter much and hence I chose ubuntu-latest.
Ubuntu changed the default home directory permissions and nginx wasn't able to access the app's sock file to communicate with the Rails app.
We are not tracking that, no. But the brotli filter is currently only applied to JS and CSS assets and JSON responses. The biggest instances use S3 as CDN for assets. Canada or US may be affected by asset delivery. All servers are affected by compression of JSON responses. Small payloads don't benefit from brotli though. So the biggest impact would be on big APIv0 responses. But popular responses like loading products for a shop front are paginated and loaded lazily. Each chunk is small. With the perspective of us moving away from APIv0 and more towards rendering server-side, trying to operate in small quick actions instead of big bulk actions, the benefit of botli may not be there. Anyway, I was thinking that we would get brotli back at some point. Since we can easily install it via Apt, there won't be much needed to support it again. And currently we have all servers running Ubuntu 20 with brotli for a while. It would only affect new instances which probably don't have big payloads anyway (except assets and we should encourage a CDN then). |
| config.vm.box = "generic/ubuntu2004" | ||
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| #config.vm.box = "generic/ubuntu2404" | ||
| config.vm.box = "alvistack/ubuntu-24.04" |
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Hrm, seems like there might not be any official boxes anymore: https://askubuntu.com/a/1521304/164829
Another reason to use LXC I suppose! (for Linux users).
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Fantastic work, congrats and well done on getting us there! |
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The brotli compilation failed on newer Ubuntu versions. I chose the easy path for now to deactivate brotli for newer Ubuntu since it's only relevant for a few servers and only when we actually replace servers again.
From Ubuntu 24 onwards, brotli can be installed via apt. That may require replacing the used nginx role which isn't maintained any more anyway. That's a different task though.