Questions to ask developers before create pipeline

We need to ask developers to clear some questions before integration with pipeline

Common Questions

• How many deployment environments (dev, qa, acc, test1, prod)
• What’s the domain of each environment
• Which Cloud Platform using, AWS or Alicloud

Frontend - NodeJS

• Which NodeJS version
• Which frontend framework, Vue or React or others
• Which build tool prefer, yarn, npm, pnpm
• What’s the build command for each environment, for example:
  • we recommend this format yarn build:$CI_ENVIRONMENT_NAME
  • yarn build:dev, yarn build:test1 , yarn build:perftest , yarn build:prod
• Is the static website running on K8s/ECS or AWS S3/Alicloud OSS

Backend - Java

• Java version, Java8 , Java11 or Java21

• How many Jar file should be created in this project, Decided that each module needs to have a Dockerfile and jar file

• Which build tool using, Maven or Gradle

• Where to store sensitive data, in K8s secret or Naocs

• Which database, mysql or pgsql, need to initialize the database ?

• Does it using common library ?

  • pom file exists private dependency library

     <dependency>
     	<groupId>com.kone.project-name</groupId>
     	<artifactId>service-name</artifactId>
     	<version>1.0.0-snapshot</version>
     </dependency>
    

• Running on K8s or AWS ECS

  • the request CPU/Memory resources
  • HPA Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
  • Log collection
    • Custome metrics
    • Custome Dashboard

• about pipeline, support deploy each module or all modules

  • for NMT backend project, click “build&deploy_all_dev” button = click “deploy_dev_app” + “deploy_dev_auth” + “deploy_dev_gateway” …
  • Some developers prefer to deploy all modules at once, some developers prefer to deploy only a single module

Backend - C++

• .NET version
• which build tool, cmake, make or ninja
• where is build command file

App - Flutter

• Which Flutter SDK version
• Support platform, only Android, iOS or both