[KUDU-2669] Automate/Standardize the release process

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: build docker
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Grant Henke
• Created: 24/Jan/19 00:46
• Updated: 03/Jun/20 14:13

Description

We recently saw an issue where the docs generated by a release were wrong because we released on a mac and that resulted in different effective defaults.

In this case it was code likes this that caused the issue: 

#ifndef __APPLE__
static constexpr bool kDefaultSystemAuthToLocal = true;
#else
// macOS's Heimdal library has a no-op implementation of
// krb5_aname_to_localname, so instead we just use the simple
// implementation.
static constexpr bool kDefaultSystemAuthToLocal = false;

Additionally the release process is fairly manual. We should leverage the docker work to standardize a release environment and automated process to ensure a consistent reproducible release.