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Adding a new external service that syncs slowly results in 504 Gateway Timeout

Created by: mrnugget

I'm not sure whether we have covered this in any other ticket yet or whether it's a known issue already. It's probably highly related to the idea of turning slow operations into asynchronous ones, but maybe there's an easier fix (such as increasing a timeout somewhere)

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to https://k8s.sgdev.org/site-admin/external-services
  2. Add a new external service that sync really slowly, e.g. the GHE service we have in dev-private with this config that has two repositoryQuery that both yield a ton of repos:
{
  "url": "https://ghe.sgdev.org",
  "token": "<foobar>",
  "repositoryQuery": [
    "public",
    "affiliated"
  ]
}
  • Click "Add external service" and watch spinner

Expected behavior:

Request takes a loooong time but ultimately succeeds

Actual behavior:

  • Spinner stops
  • No confirmation that creation has been successful
  • External service has been created (!)
  • network tab shows that request resulted in 504 Gateway Timeout