omnibus-gitlab/test-plans/upgrade-redis-testplan.md

Redis component upgrade test plan

Test plan

• Performed a successful GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) build on all supported platforms (include build-package-on-all-os job).

• Ran qa-subset-test as well as manual qa-remaining-test-manual CI/CD test job for both GitLab Enterprise Edition and GitLab Community Edition.

• Redis indicator test cases were not failing.

  • realtime components via assignee test
  • project template import

• Performed fresh install and verified operation:

  • Installed on single node

    • Checked installed version:

      /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/redis-server --version
      

    • Sign-in

    • Imported a project (confirms Sidekiq works)

    • Checked gitlab-kas log for Redis errors

    • Checked redis-exporter logs for errors

    • Confirmed gitlab-redis-cli command connects to Redis

  • Installed on HA Sentinels (see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/redis/replication_and_failover.html)
    • Signed-in
    • Imported a project (confirms Sidekiq works)
    • Checked gitlab-kas log for Redis errors
    • Performed failover

• Updates

  • Updated on single node:

    • Verified that you get the message:

      Running version of Redis different than installed version. Restart redis"
      

    • Sign-in

    • Imported a project (confirms Sidekiq works)

    • Checked gitlab-kas log for Redis errors

    • Checked redis-exporter logs for errors

    • Confirmed gitlab-redis-cli command connects to Redis

  • Updated HA Sentinel/Redis nodes (see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/zero_downtime.html#redis-ha-using-sentinel)

    • Verified that you get the message:

      Running version of Redis different than installed version. Restart redis"
      

    • Signed-in

    • Imported a project (confirms Sidekiq works)

    • Checked gitlab-kas log for Redis errors

    • Checked redis-exporter logs for errors

    • Confirmed gitlab-redis-cli command connects to Redis on a Redis node

    • Performed failover