Lark: Sprint 4 (March 25-April 5, 2019)

What was the goal of Sprint 4?
The sprint had two main goals: First and foremost, we set out to complete cloud-native deployments Lark into both campus’s environments. Second, we wanted to take our first steps toward configurable metadata models. This a key design goal and deliverable for the product.

What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting?
The Milestone 1 is to have an initial stand-alone platform where we can create, edit, and retrieve authority records.

Accomplishments of Sprint 4:
Deployment - We achieved repeatable deployments Lark using Helm and Kubernetes. The deployment configuration is usable by both campuses.

Stable development and staging deployments are up on UCSD infrastructure at http://lib-lark-dev.ucsd.edu/ and http://lib-lark-staging.ucsd.edu/.  UCSB deployments have been tested on temporary AWS servers, but stable services are depend on ongoing work to deploy Kubernetes and Rancher locally.

Configurable Models - Initial configurable modeling is finished for Concepts, and in-progress for Agents.

Documentation - We took a pass through architecture documentation.
We also added some design work on the documentation site at https://surfliner.gitlab.io/docs/

Did we do everything we set out to accomplish?
UCSB’s deployment is still pending. Though we anticipate a single Lark production deployment, shared deployments are a project-wide goal, so we consider this a gap.

The team operated at reduced capacity this sprint, owing to conference schedules (LDCX) and community work (Hyrax, Wings).

GitLab link: https://gitlab.com/surfliner/surfliner/-/milestones/10