Describe the reason for these changes and the problem that they solve
To provide ample maintenance time to replace a faulty system drive in our production server, it's worthwhile to spin up a secondary standby host that can handle traffic during the reinstallation of the server.
This process is also useful to confirm that we can run the production service from multiple machines, a property that may be useful in future.
This changeset documents the process involved in creating and running the standby host.
Note: the standby host has been installed in an unprivileged LXC container on a physically separate machine.
Briefly summarize the changes
TODO: document the LXC setup steps
How have the changes been tested?
Local development testing -- in particular, with three foundational microservices (api, backend and frontend), and all of the essential system services (OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, RabbitMQ) running within the container, the site was opened successfully from a web browser outside the container, and a successfully recipe search was performed with subsequent confirmation that an event was logged to the events.searches database table as expected.
List any issues that this change relates to
Supports/documents #47.
Describe the reason for these changes and the problem that they solve
To provide ample maintenance time to replace a faulty system drive in our production server, it's worthwhile to spin up a secondary standby host that can handle traffic during the reinstallation of the server.
This process is also useful to confirm that we can run the production service from multiple machines, a property that may be useful in future.
This changeset documents the process involved in creating and running the standby host.
Note: the standby host has been installed in an unprivileged LXC container on a physically separate machine.
Briefly summarize the changes
How have the changes been tested?
api,backendandfrontend), and all of the essential system services (OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, RabbitMQ) running within the container, the site was opened successfully from a web browser outside the container, and a successfully recipe search was performed with subsequent confirmation that an event was logged to theevents.searchesdatabase table as expected.List any issues that this change relates to Supports/documents #47.