Not clear which version of which components to deploy for a given release

[dnmvisser]

The CHANGELOG lists the Release numbers, and which components to install. But it's not complete, for instance for release 15 it's not immediately clear which version of the Stepup-tiqr component to deploy.
Also, you'd have to manually browse each component's repository, check the released files, eyeball sort and pick the appropriate tarball.
Deployment could be eased by having a var that holds all components, their versions, and the actual URLs as well, for instance:

release_components:
  - 15:
    - Middleware:
      - version: 2.8.0
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-Middleware/releases/download/2.8.0-20180419112655Z-aab35614eb074d5a1d775e1b1b35818c2e87011e/Stepup-Middleware-2.8.0-20180419112655Z-aab35614eb074d5a1d775e1b1b35818c2e87011e.tar.bz2
    - Gateway:
      - version: 2.9.0
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-Gateway/releases/download/2.9.0-20180419111847Z-13486f5ae7c183200191ed0442a88642f09a3659/Stepup-Gateway-2.9.0-20180419111847Z-13486f5ae7c183200191ed0442a88642f09a3659.tar.bz2
    - SelfService:
      - version: 2.9.0
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-SelfService/releases/download/2.9.0-20180419113528Z-48492cd60c412cbe0c7fdb6b262dfa80e44450da/Stepup-SelfService-2.9.0-20180419113528Z-48492cd60c412cbe0c7fdb6b262dfa80e44450da.tar.bz2
    - RA:
      - version: 2.9.0
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-RA/releases/download/2.9.0-20180419113138Z-dc14e3b78b5aaf884db632e2f7d943a071e38a3f/Stepup-RA-2.9.0-20180419113138Z-dc14e3b78b5aaf884db632e2f7d943a071e38a3f.tar.bz2
    - tiqr:
      - version: 1.1.8
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-tiqr/releases/download/1.1.8-20180306084707Z-acd4c5db5b22ff5fad48c032e0236fa27d1ae1ce/Stepup-tiqr-1.1.8-20180306084707Z-acd4c5db5b22ff5fad48c032e0236fa27d1ae1ce.tar.bz2
  - 14:
    - Middleware:
      - version: 2.7.1
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-Middleware/releases/download/2.7.1-20180330083152Z-a3c457f93751ce97f6915326106515763b267594/Stepup-Middleware-2.7.1-20180330083152Z-a3c457f93751ce97f6915326106515763b267594.tar.bz2
    - Gateway:
      - version: 2.8.3
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-Gateway/releases/download/2.8.3-20180404095536Z-c71690729b38ef4a570ea4c0a2cbd8e8b6fcbca5/Stepup-Gateway-2.8.3-20180404095536Z-c71690729b38ef4a570ea4c0a2cbd8e8b6fcbca5.tar.bz2
    - SelfService:
      - version: 2.8.0
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-SelfService/releases/download/2.8.0-20180315090529Z-1ea292cf3ff8afc7e2edd1452c409b9d6de30ee8/Stepup-SelfService-2.8.0-20180315090529Z-1ea292cf3ff8afc7e2edd1452c409b9d6de30ee8.tar.bz2
    - RA:
      - version: 2.8.1
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-RA/releases/download/2.8.1-20180323142543Z-92c7a9bb3cf74524398a7d5ae7b8d69eecae7406/Stepup-RA-2.8.1-20180323142543Z-92c7a9bb3cf74524398a7d5ae7b8d69eecae7406.tar.bz2
    - tiqr:
      - version: 1.1.8
      - tarball_url: https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-tiqr/releases/download/1.1.8-20180306084707Z-acd4c5db5b22ff5fad48c032e0236fa27d1ae1ce/Stepup-tiqr-1.1.8-20180306084707Z-acd4c5db5b22ff5fad48c032e0236fa27d1ae1ce.tar.bz2
  - 13.2:
    - etc
    etc

[pmeulen]

Hi Dick,

Note that Release 15 is still in development (you are looking at the changelog of the develop branch). The version numbers of the components for release 15 are not known yet, and will be added when the release is final, just like for the previous releases. I agree that there should be no need for hunting which release is the latest for a component. The idea of a Stepup-Develop release number is that it specifies the exact versions of all the components that work together (and that went though QA together).

Something like what you are looking for exists in https://github.com/OpenConext/Stepup-VM/blob/feature/dev-vm/deploy-release.sh

Because Stepup-Deploy is for a specific release (i.e. you use Stepup-Deploy tagged with release-14 to deploy the component from release-14), I don't think it makes sense to have a list with all the component tarballs in the Stepup-Deploy repo. However it does make sense to have a method to deploy components using the tarballs from github for the current release.