TFGrid deployment: FreeFlow Twin

[ken-de-moor]

We are looking into fully deploying FreeFlow twin on the grid, some code changes needs to be done and we are researching and applying them. No estimated release as it's very hard to estimate now what exactly we need to change.

[LennertDefauw1]

Progress report:

Step 1: code has been updated to support FreeFlow on Grid3 in twin_aydo (on a seperate branch):
https://github.com/threefoldtech/twin_aydo/tree/feature/grid-support

Step 2: made a typescript project to deploy a FreeFlow container manually via ts-node:
https://github.com/threefoldtech/tf-freeflow-grid-deployer

Step 3: integrated FreeFlow container deploy in grid_weblets:
https://github.com/threefoldtech/grid_weblets

PR: threefoldtecharchive/grid_weblets#1033

Note: this is a proof of concept made on threefold-login-staging.

[sasha-astiadi]

will it be on playground 3.8?

[sasha-astiadi]

the beta stay the way it is

[despiegk]

what is now the right approach, I am not sure that kubernetes is not the better one, I can see many possible issue with going for flists right now, lets discuss with team what makes sense and what not

[xmonader]

There are no obstacles to the deployment of freeflow with public ipv6 to avoid the expense of ipv4 as was discussed with Lennert. To prevent unintentionally deploying on farms that do not support ipv6, we will implement a filter on the grid side for farms with public ipv6.

The backend (browser, mtu, document server) is currently fixed for jimber endpoints, but it is planned to allow farmers to deploy the backend stack on dedicated nodes in a later stage. Additionally, when deploying the twin, you should be able to select which backend node to configure the freeflow to work against.

Also, service upgrade paths been discussed with Lennert, and all seems fine for him.

[sabrinasadik]

@ken-de-moor do you have an update on this?

[ken-de-moor]

Not sure currently, needs to be checked again, we're now working on the app release as well so I don't know what the impact of the app would be on this grid deployment. Back then there was no app, only a website.

[xmonader]

This is now deployable on the grid (available on playground.dev.grid.tf)