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Project start to finish

All the little pieces

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Here is a typical project workflow template you can use from project start to the application being retired.

Project Starts

• create DB diagram
• create gitlab project
• setup server via ansible scripts to make sure all basics are installed
• install CI
• setup failed build notifications on slack
• Setup deploy notification going to slack (slackistrano) 
• protect master branch
• protect staging branch 
• set develop as default branch
• Setup DNS
• setup develop server
• setup auto deploy to dev server
• install newrelic
• install rollbar
• robots.txt for staging site
• automatic DB diagram update
• if on another server add to munin
• configure continuous deployment

Project Continues

• check client is paying for maintenance
• make sure project is getting deployed to production once per week (sprint meeting happens before deploy to agree what is getting deployed)
• server package updates
• app Rails and Gems updates: update rails on existing apps as they come out - minor versions at minimum
• make sure Gems are either issuing pull requests or in Company organization so if an employee were to leave you can still use the modified Gem
• examine NewRelic for performance issues
• verify GitFlow is being followed
• make sure core functionality specced and passing
• CI passing
○   rspec passing
○   Rubocop passing
• logo.png present for GitLab
• Create staging server
• switch default branch from develop to master
• Lower costs of server by committing to Reserved Instances on Amazon

Project Goes to Production

Project Ends