Comment by packet_mover
4 days ago
Thanks for chiming in - super helpful context.
I am trying to learn from real deployments as I design Corviont's updater for edge boxes (bandwidth caps, maintenance windows, unreliable WAN, atomic swap + rollback).
When you say transit "zones" are small enough to deploy incrementally - what is the actual artifact per zone (roughly what format), and what sizes do you typically see?
And when a transit zone dataset changes, how do you roll that out safely - do you restart/reload the backend that serves that zone, or do you bring up a new backend/version and then flip travelmux to point at it?
Transit routing is provided by OpenTripPlanner, so the deployment artifact is their OTP serialized graph format.
So it’s not really incremental with respect to the existing transit zone deployment. I just mean I can redeploy a single transit zone with the latest GTFS without having to touch the other transit zones, tileserver, geocoder, etc.
Deployment/rollback is handled by k8s config.
Thank you, that's very helpful.