Author: Bartolini, M.
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MOCPR05 CI-CD Practices with the TANGO-controls Framework in the Context of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Telescope Project 115
 
  • M. Di Carlo
    INAF - OAAB, Teramo, Italy
  • D. Bartashevich, J.B. Morgado, D.F. Nunes
    GRIT, Aveiro, Portugal
  • M. Bartolini
    SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
  • K. Madisa, A.J. Venter, M.J.A. de Beer
    SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
  • S. Williams
    ROE, UTAC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: INAF Osservatorio Astronomico d’Abruzzo
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build two radio interferometers in South Africa and Australia to form one observatory monitored and controlled from the global headquarters (GHQ) in the United Kingdom. The project is very close to the end of its design phase and many decisions have already been made like the adoption of the Tango-controls framework. The time from the end of the design phases and the beginning of the construction has been called bridging with the goal of promoting CI-CD practices. CI-CD is an acronym for Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery and/or continuous deployment. CI is the practice of merging all developers’ local (working) copies into the mainline very often (at least daily). Continuous delivery is the approach of developing software in short cycle ensuring that it can be released anytime, and continuous deployment is the approach of delivering the software frequently and automatically. The present paper analyzes the decision taken by the system team (a specialized agile team for continuous practices in the Safe framework) for promoting those practices within the Tango-controls framework.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOCPR05  
About • paper received ※ 20 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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WEPHA011 Scaling Agile for the Square Kilometre Array 1079
 
  • M. Bartolini, L.R. Brederode, M. Deegan, M. Miccolis, N.P. Rees, J. Santander-Vela
    SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
 
  The SKA Observatory is approaching the construction of the SKA1 radio telescopes, concluding the pre-construction phase in December 2019. A bridging phase has commenced before construction commences during which lean-agile processes, structures and practices are being prototyped. By the end of the bridging phase we plan to have pivoted from a document based, earned value, stage gated set of processes arranged around pre-construction consortia to a code based, value flow driven, lean-agile set of processes unified around the Scaled Agile Framework. During the bridging process we have onboarded more than 10 agile development teams and in this paper we describe the processes, the main technical and cultural challenges and the preliminary results of adopting a lean-agile culture within the SKA organization.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA011  
About • paper received ※ 02 October 2019       paper accepted ※ 11 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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WEPHA058 State of the Tango Controls Kernel Development in 2019 1234
 
  • A. Götz, R. Bourtembourg, T. Braun, J.M. Chaize, P.V. Verdier
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
  • G. Abeillé
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • M. Bartolini
    SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
  • T.M. Coutinho, J. Moldes
    ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  • S. Gara
    NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France
  • P.P. Goryl, M. Liszcz
    S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
  • V.H. Hardion
    MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  • A.F. Joubert
    SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
  • I. Khokhriakov, O. Merkulova
    IK, Moscow, Russia
  • G.R. Mant
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • L. Pivetta
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
 
  This paper will present the state of of kernel developments in the Tango Controls toolkit and community since the previous ICALEPCS 2017. It will describe what changes have been made over the last 2 years to the Long Term Support (LTS) version, how GitHub has been used to provide Continuous Integration (CI) for all platforms, and prepare the latest source code release. It will present how docker containers are supported, how they are being used for CI and for building digital twins. It will describe the outcome of the kernel code camp(s). Finally it will present how Tango is preparing the next version - V10. The paper will explain why new and old installations can continue profiting from Tango Controls or in other words in Tango "the more things change the better the core concepts become".  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA058  
About • paper received ※ 01 October 2019       paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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