Deployment Guides

Generic tasks

• Get deploy token
  • Setup
    • 1. Update deploy repositories
    • 2. Check if Kingfisher is busy
    • 3. Get deploy token
  • Cleanup
    • 1. Release deploy token
• Create a server
  • 1. Create the new server
    • Bytemark
    • Hetzner
      • Install Ubuntu
  • 2. Create DNS records
  • 3. Apply core changes
  • 4. Deploy the service
  • 5. Migrate from the old server
  • 6. Update external services
• Deploy a service
  • 1. Run Salt function
  • 2. Check Salt output
  • 3. Manual cleanup
• Delete a server
• Troubleshoot
  • Increase verbosity
  • Salt hangs inexplicably
  • Watch Salt activity
  • Restart a service

Service-specific tasks

• OCDS documentation tasks
  • Add a new language
  • Add a new profile
  • Publish draft documentation
  • Publish released documentation
• Prometheus tasks
  • Monitor a service
  • Test Alert Manager
  • Upgrade Prometheus
• Kingfisher tasks
  • Deploy Kingfisher Process without losing Scrapy requests
• Redash tasks
  • Create a Redash server
  • Upgrade the Redash service

External service tasks

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Simple Email Service (SES)
  • Aurora Serverless
• Google Workspace
  • Email