Self-managed Scalability Working Group

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• Attributes
• Business Goal
• Exit Criteria (100%)
• Business outcome
• Roles and Responsibilities

Attributes

Property	Value
Date Created	May 21, 2019
Target End Date	June 23, 2020
Slack	#wg_sm-scalability (only accessible from within the company)
Google Doc	Self-managed Scalability Working Group Agenda (only accessible from within the company)
Issue Board	gitlab-org boards 1131633

Business Goal

Ensure all new customers are set up in a standardized environment that will scales with their needs. Migrate existing customers to an appropriate reference environment.

Exit Criteria (100%)

• Complete GitLab self-managed performance metrics => 100%
• Monitoring enabled by default for all large customers (Prometheus, Grafana and all exporters) => 100%
• Inventory of self-managed customers with scores of their environment => 100% Scoring system has been defined.
• Migrate one customer to our reference architecture => 100%
• List of additional needed reference architectures => 100% We have identified 10K, 25K and 50K and the next immediate need.
• 10,000 user reference architecture => 100%
• 25,000 user reference architecture => 100%
• 50,000 user reference architecture => 100%
• First iteration of a mixed Kubernetes Omnibus architecture => 100%

Business outcome

• Since we have completed the performance testing, Our reference architecture has been the default starting point for self-managed customers looking to set up HA. This is a significant improvement in efficiency by reducing the time SAs spend helping customers determine the right sizing/setup.
• The performance testing kit has been utilized by prospects who need to prove performance at scale as part of their pre-purchase due diligence. Previously, the customer had to do this on their own, which was time consuming, complicated, and risked the deal moving forward.

Roles and Responsibilities

Working Group Role	Person	Title
Facilitator	Mek Stittri	Director of Quality
Support Lead	Aric Buerer	Support Engineer
CS Lead	Brian Wald	Solutions Architects Manager
Quality Lead	Grant Young	Sr. Software Engineer in Test
Development Lead	Matt Nohr	Engineering Manager, Monitor
PM Lead	Dov Hershkovitch	Senior Product Manager, Monitor:APM
Tech Writing Lead	Achilleas (Axil) Pipinellis	Technical Writer
Member	Tom Cooney	Director of Support
Member	Francis Potter	Solutions Architect
Member	John Woods	CSM Manager
Member	Tanya Pazitny	Quality Engineering Manager
Member	Andrew Newdigate	Distinguished SRE
Member	Nailia Iskhakova	Software Engineer in Test
Member	John Skarbek	Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Delivery
Member	Jason Plum	Senior Distribution Engineer
Member	Vincy Wilson	Quality Engineering Manager
Member	Catalin Irimie	Support Engineer
Executive Sponsor	Eric Johnson	VP of Engineering