Experiences upgrading to 22.05

[jarrah42]

I just wanted to document some experiences I had when upgrading to 22.05 with an Ansible installation. Hopefully this will help others who are planning to do the same thing.

• Ansible role versions needed to be updated. I had to find the new version and update requirements.txt, then figure out command to use to perform the update (ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r requirements.yml --force)
• Next, galaxyserver.yml needed to be changed to remove the uwsgi section and add a gravity section. I subsequently discovered that the uwsgi was not removed from the installed configuration file, which caused some confusion when Galaxy failed to start (I thought it may have been caused by these entries.)
• Our nginx template had to be modified to support gunicorn

At this point, Galaxy failed to start. The main log file no longer seemed to have useful information to debug this. It was not obvious where to look as log files now split over different locations. I eventually found the log files in /srv/galaxy/var/gravity/log.

In the end, I was able to find the following issues:

• There was a permission problem on /srv/galaxy/var/gravity/supervisor/* (owner/group root instead of galaxy)
• I had to manually remove /srv/galaxy/var/gravity/supervisor/supervisor.sock

The new galaxyctl command looks great, but it is not clear how to use it in this environment.

Good luck!

[hexylena]

22.05 is neither released nor supported by this role yet :( We really do not advise doing this just yet.

1. Unfortunately for you, the supervisor permission problem was already known to us. Sorry everyone has to re-discover that!
2. Yes, part of the switch to gravity/supervisor has meant that journalctl is now useless. We're discussing alternatives that will let us retain the systemd/journalctl benefits.

but it is not clear how to use it in this environment.

yep, the docs aren't written yet because 22.05 is not released. You're very brave/adventurous to try it!

Personally I will be staying on 22.01 at least for a little while longer until we have a good migration path,.

[jarrah42]

Might be worth considering being more explicit about which versions are supported? The "New options for Galaxy 22.01 and later"section in the README seems to imply later versions are supported, particularly since 22.05 is mentioned.

[natefoo]

A "this role supports versions X through Y" would definitely be good, although FWIW we do commit to making sure it supports the latest released version before the release is officially released.

[lldelisle]

Hi there,
Thanks @jarrah42 for your report.
Which version of galaxy the ansible role version 0.10.7 is covering?
Thanks

[mvdbeek]

I think this is all solved at this point and everything fairly recent is supported.