Maintenance Guides

To be responsible for servers, you should:

• Subscribe to:

  • Servers Status mailing list

  • Operating system security announcements (Ubuntu)

  • Hosting provider network status announcements

• Upgrade packages on a weekly basis

• Check server monitoring, at a regular interval:

  • Check the resource usage and decide whether to rescale or to investigate any abnormalities

  • Check the alerts configuration

• Perform periodic server tasks, at a regular interval:

  • Review root access

  • Check mail

  • Clean root user directory

  • Re-deploy services to guarantee all changes are applied (optional)

• Check that backups are made, at a regular interval

Contents

• Periodic tasks
  • Review root access
  • Clean root user directory
  • Check drive usage
  • Check mail
  • Auto-remove packages
  • Upgrade Ubuntu
• Manage server packages
  • 1. List upgrades
  • 2. Upgrade packages
  • 3. Reboot
• Maintain PostgreSQL
  • Troubleshoot
  • Control access
  • Improve performance
  • Check usage
  • Restore from backup
  • Recover the replica
• Maintain Elasticsearch
  • Troubleshoot
  • Manage data
  • Upgrade
• Maintain RabbitMQ
  • Access the management interface
  • Review log files
  • Check memory use
  • Troubleshoot
• Maintain Docker
  • Review log files
  • Open a shell
  • Check project usage
  • Check system-wide usage
  • Prune objects
• Hosting
  • Rescale a server
  • Recover a server

Service-specific tasks

• OCDS documentation tasks
  • Clean draft documentation
  • Check 404 errors
• Redmine tasks
  • Debug email reception
  • Debug email notifications
  • Cleanup old files
  • Reference