Permissions required
In order to be able to tag and deploy a release you need to be a member of the Release Managers groups on gitlab.com and dev.gitlab.org.
Group memberships
Access to the release manager group is controlled through a file in release-tools. As part of your onboarding issue, you should have edited that file to add your information, and then opened a merge request.
Chef Server
First make sure you have a copy of the takeoff project.
Now you need to request for an account on the Chef server, please open a new issue
and an operations engineer will provide you with a private key that you can
store in /path/to/takeoff/.chef/your_username.pem in order to have the knife
tool configured. If all went well you can check if you have access to the Chef
server by running knife status from the takeoff directory.
Your /path/to/takeoff/.chef/knife.rb file should looks similar to:
# This file goes in takeoff/.chef/knife.rb
#
# - Replace 'janedoe' with your username
# - Put your private key for chef.gitlab.com/gitlab in .chef/
#
# See http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_knife.html for more information on knife configuration options
current_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
log_level :info
log_location STDOUT
node_name "janedoe"
client_key "#{current_dir}/janedoe.pem"
chef_server_url "https://chef.gitlab.com/organizations/gitlab"
cache_type 'BasicFile'
cache_options( :path => "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/checksums" )
cookbook_path ["#{current_dir}/../cookbooks"]
knife[:vault_mode] = 'client'
knife[:ssh_user] = 'janedoe'