Arturo Herrero authored 5 years ago and Alessio Caiazza committed 5 years ago

We had concerns about the cached values on Redis with the previous two
releases strategy:

First release (this commit):
  - Create new encrypted fields in the database.
  - Start populating new encrypted fields, read the encrypted fields or
    fallback to the plaintext fields.
  - Backfill the data removing the plaintext fields to the encrypted
    fields.
Second release:
  - Remove the virtual attribute (created in step 2).
  - Drop plaintext columns from the database (empty columns after
    step 3).

We end up with a better strategy only using migration scripts in one
release:
  - Pre-deployment migration: Add columns required for storing encrypted
    values.
  - Pre-deployment migration: Store the encrypted values in the new
    columns.
  - Post-deployment migration: Remove the old unencrypted columns

Arturo Herrero authored 5 years ago and Alessio Caiazza committed 5 years ago

This is the plan to encrypt the plaintext tokens:

First release (this commit):
  1. Create new encrypted fields in the database.
  2. Start populating new encrypted fields, read the encrypted fields or
     fallback to the plaintext fields.
  3. Backfill the data removing the plaintext fields to the encrypted fields.

Second release:
  4. Remove the virtual attribute (created in step 2).
  5. Drop plaintext columns from the database (empty columns after step 3).