routeviews-google-upload 0.1.5

CLI tool for uploading RouteViews files to Google Cloud Storage (and other Google Cloud services).

RouteViews Google Cloud Storage Client

This project provides a (Python) client that takes a file and sends it to the Google Cloud Storage solution for the Google+RouteViews project.

Installation and Usage

This solution is deployed to PyPI, so you can install it simply using the command pip install routeviews-google-upload.

pip install routeviews-google-upload

The simplest invocation of this tool is to upload a file to a target gRPC server.

routeviews-google-upload --dest https://grpc.routeviews.org --file /bgpdata/2021.03/UPDATES/update.20210331.2345.bz2

Run the command with the --help argument to see all the expected and available arguments.

Local Debug::Echo server

If you are interested in running the solution end-to-end but don't have a gRPC target server in-mind, then you might be interested in running a local "debug echo gRPC server". Fortunately, we have baked a simple gRPC server into routeviews-google-upload! To use this debug server, you'll need two terminals open -- one for the server and one for the client.

First, in the server terminal window:

$ routeviews-google-upload --server
RouteViews gRPC debug server is running...

Then, in the client terminal window, you can run the tool with --dest localhost:50051 and will recieve the DEBUG::ECHO response from the local server:

$ routeviews-google-upload --dest localhost:50051 --file requirements.txt 
Status: 2
Error Message: DEBUG::ECHO::
    filename: "requirements.txt"
    md5: "1af62f45fdf90b6a1addfb2b86043acb"
    content: "grpcio==1.37.0\ngrpcio-tools==1.37.0\nprotobuf==3.15.8\nsix==1.15.0\n"
    project: ROUTEVIEWS

In fact, back in the server terminal, you should now see a "Recieved a request..." message printed along with the "error message" details that match the output that was seen in the client:

$ routeviews-google-upload --server
RouteViews gRPC debug server is running...
Received a request, responding with `failure status` and the following error_message: DEBUG::ECHO::
    filename: "requirements.txt"
    md5: "1af62f45fdf90b6a1addfb2b86043acb"
    content: "grpcio==1.37.0\ngrpcio-tools==1.37.0\nprotobuf==3.15.8\nsix==1.15.0\n"
    project: ROUTEVIEWS

For Developers

For developers who are actively developing on this solution, we recommend using a Python virtual environment to manage dependencies and installing the local package in editable mode.

Install the dependencies that we need into a python virtual environment, venv.

python3 -m venv venv
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
source venv/bin/activate

Now that we have all the needed dependencies, we can generate the gRPC python code that provides the Client 'Stub' interface (which is implemented in our client.py source code).

cd proto
make proto_py

Finally, all the pieces are in place so that we can install the Python client.

pip install -e .

Now, the routeviews-google-upload CLI will be available! Any updates made to the source code will be reflected immediately in your shell session.

Continuous Integration and Deployment

This solution is deployed to PyPI via the Jenkinsfiles in this repository. Whenever the main branch has new changes pushed to it, the Jenkins Pipeline will attempt to deploy those changes to PyPI.

VERSION MANAGEMENT: The version of the solution is manually managed by updating the __version__ string in the __init__.py source file as appropriate (following "Semantic Versioning" scheme).

Recommended Git workflow

We follow the GitHub Git Flow for this project. This couples nicely with the CICD scheme described above.

Recommended GitHub Repository Settings

It would be good to have a "GitHub Branch protection rule" in place to help enforce our GitHub Flow. The following are some 'protection rules' that we might want to consider

• Any changes to main branch must go through a pull request.
• Any pull request requires 1+ approval.

Jenkins Jobs

We have a single Jenkins Pipeline that supports CICD for this project. The CICD solution does depend on some Jenkins Credentials, specified below.

The Jenkins Pipeline (NTS internal service)

This solution depends on the 'Jenkins UO NTS' GitHub App, which is discussed in detail in the "NTS Jenkins Best Practices" (NTS internal documentation)

Credential ID	Type	Where to find the secret value?
github_app_routeviews_google	GitHub App	Private Key generated from 'Jenkins UO NTS' GitHub App settings page (and converted according to instructions in Jenkins)

Jenkins Pipeline: routeviews-google-upload-CICD

Basic setup details

Jenkinsfile	Folder	Job Name	Type
Jenkinsfile	NTS	routeviews-google-upload-CICD	Multibranch Pipeline

Full configuration details

• Branch Sources
  • Git
    • Project Repository: This project
    • Credentials: github_app_routeviews_google (see above)
    • Behaviors: Use Default Settings
• Build Configuration
  • by Jenkinsfile
• Orphaned Item Strategy
  • Discard old items
    • Days to keep old items: 90