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New Sandbox Server #338

Closed larsdesigns closed 6 years ago

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

@jenlampton Requested that I build a new Sandbox server on Linode and document the build using Ansible and/or Linode StackScripts.

Thought I would make a ticket to track progress.

@quicksketch

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

Thank you!

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

I am going to build this tonight around midnight after the updates. I apologize for the delay. I was swamped last night.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

I got as far as I could tonight. I will work on this later today.

cellear commented 7 years ago

Is this sandbox server ready to go? Should I stage borg theme updates here? (If so, I would need some creds)

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

I don't think we have a sandbox server. Just commit your changes to a new branch and ping me when they are ready for review.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Ack, I apologize for the delay. I will work on the server this evening.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Okay, here we go.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Completed the following tasks:

  1. Created a 1GB Linode VM
  2. Installed and configured a working lemp stack.
  3. Configured IPtables firewall.
  4. Installed certbot.
  5. Created virtual host for test.backdropcms.org using test_backdropcms_org.conf file.
  6. Installed nrpe for Nagios and Munin monitoring.
  7. Installed Emacs for me :-)
  8. Configured MariaDB using secure installation program.
  9. Created sudo users for @jenlampton @quicksketch
  10. installed fish shell.

TO DO:

  1. Tune MariaDB.
  2. Send credentials to Ops team.
jenlampton commented 7 years ago

Will this be an exact copy of the other server? Will it have api.backdropcms.org and forum.backdropcms.org too, so we can use it to test bakery module?

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Oh, it is a new server build with updated nginx, mariadb, etc.

However, I can also make a clone of the server that has forum.backdropcms.org too.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Cancel the request for the public keys. I found your keys on one of the other servers, created the user and tested.

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

We only have one other server.... in a perfect world, this would be an exact copy of that one. Can we do that with linode?

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Yes, I will create a clone of the VM this evening. If I run into a snag, I will ask linode to push it along. They have helped me with this before.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

To clone the server, I will need to halt it for probably an hour. The clone process will not run on a running VM. I will do so tonight around midnight. I will perform a manual backup of the server image also prior to halting the VM.

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

Ah okay. Are there smarter ways to copy a whole server? I expect we may need to do this again every so often :)

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Looks like they have a new Images section but it is in beta. I think we can use Docker but I will look into it.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Starting the clone process. Estimated 38 minutes to go.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

The new clone server is up and running. I had to enable "Auto-configure Networking" in the profile and reboot to gain access to it. This setting is not enable by default and leaves our new baby clone without a public IP as I found using a glish session.

@jenlampton Would you like for me to delete the sandbox server I created last weekend?

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

Yes, if you think we won't need it :)

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

It could be helpful. But I can always make another one.

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

Will you be needing any domain or sub domain configured in Nginx? Such as test.backdropcms.org or something?

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

yeah, can we do them all with a new subdomain test.? Something like...

test.www.backdropcms.org test.api.backdropcms.org test.forum.backdropcms.org

And we should probably password protect them too... but I wonder how that will affect the bakery testing. Maybe not yet :)

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

I can make the changes in Nginx but I do not have access to the DNS. If you want to send me the credentials, I can make the A records or just send me a list of the A records that were created.

jenlampton commented 7 years ago

I don't have DNS access. @quicksketch ?

larsdesigns commented 7 years ago

I am going to go ahead and take down the new server I created that we are not using to save confusion later.

larsdesigns commented 6 years ago

I took down the host that was not being used after months of being shutdown.

For now, I think that it is okay to make /etc/hosts entries for the domain and subdomains when folks are working with this host.

Should it be decided that test URLs are needed, let's open a new issue for that.

No further tasks. Closing...