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== Virtual machines ==
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The Gbib is a ubuntu 13 linux with apache, mysql and the default tools. See [[Preparing_VirtualBox_images]]
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Hgwdev has virtualbox installed and two virtual machines (VMs) added: browserbox and browserbox-dev. Browserbox-dev can be used for development of box-specific patches, it is not relevant for QA. browserbox is the "master" image of the gbib and used by QA.
 
qateam has aliases to start and stop the VMs: boxStart / boxStop
 
Once started, browserbox listens at port 1234 for web requests and at 1235 for ssh
 
== SSH ==
So you can do "ssh box" on hgwdev to connect to the box.
 
There is no password, because the qateam ssh key was added to the box.
 
This works because qateam has this entry in their .ssh/config:
 
  Host box
  Hostname localhost
  Port 1235
  User browser
 
== Connecting to the boxes from your desktop machine ==
 
browserbox and browserbox-dev both accept only connections from hgwdev, not from outside. You cannot connect from your desktop machine to any box. So ssh on your desktop has to be told to forward a few ports to hgwdev. Once you start ssh, it will listen to some ports on your machine, all data gets tunneled through the ssh connection and appears on hgwdev on the localhost interface, where hgwdev will forward it to the browserbox. To make this happen, add this to your file ~/.ssh/config on your own OSX or linux machine:
 
  Host hgwdevtunnel
  Hostname hgwdev.sdsc.edu
  User <YOURHGWDEVUSER e.g. rhead>
  LocalForward 127.0.0.1:1234 127.0.0.1:1234
  LocalForward 127.0.0.1:1236 127.0.0.1:1236
 
You can then do a "ssh devtunnel" to get connected to hgwdev and have the ports on your machine 1234 (or 1236) forwarded to the boxes. Port 1234 is a http port, so you can then work the browserbox by going to http://127.0.0.1:1234
 
== Box release cycle ==
 
* for beta testing, a special update target on the box can pull in the beta CGIs that were compiled by the buildmeister
* for public release, the box in this beta state is cleaned and zipped. This zip can be tested on Windows or OSX. This zip is then pushed to hgdownload.
 
Development can happen on the devbox, a development version of the browserbox with git, gcc etc. For testing during development, a special command on the box can pull in the CGIs that were compiled on the devbox.
 
 
== Beta testing ==
 
Copy cgi-bin-beta from hgwdev into the beta distribution directory of the box:
 
  ssh box updateBrowser beta
 
Setup the tunnel:
  ssh hgwdevtunnel
 
Now you can test the beta CGIs via http://127.0.0.1:1234.
 
== Release ==
 
To release the box:
  boxRelease
 
This will ssh into the box, clean it (remove temp files, sessions, etc), stop it, zip it into a zipfile and place it onto hgwdev on http://hgwdev.soe.ucsc.edu/browserbox/browserbox.zip
This zipfile can then be pushed to hgdownload.

Latest revision as of 09:34, 20 October 2014

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