209 Adding new deployments

When a new application deployment is to be created we always need the same set of information.
If possible, please supply all the information listed below and send them via E-Mail to ops@makandra.de.
This helps us, the makandra DevOps team, to configure your new deployment.

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Unsure which hardware and software requirements your project has? Questions about any of this points? Please contact our DevOps team, we are happy to help!

Type of deployment

The deployment is ..

• Ruby on Rails
• Elixir
• PHP
• A static page
• Other

General Information

• When is the deployment planned go live?
• How much traffic do you expect?
• Who shall get E-Mails regarding this deployment?
  • Who should get (cron) fail mails (interesting mostly to developers)?
  • Who should get maintenance mails (interesting mostly for project managers)?
• This deployment is part of which contract? (link to the proposal if you have one)
• Should we opt out from telemetry for various open source tools and libraries?

Basic deployment information

• Name of the deployment
  • Keep in mind, the application name is used as part of the user name, database and config files)
• Database backend (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
• Database extensions (e.g. postgis)
• SSH keys for deployment
• Configuration file content (e.g. production.yml, secrets.yml)
• Additional packages to be installed (e.g. yarn, node, ruby-rmagick, wkhtmltopdf, ...)

Additional services for your deployment

• Redis
• OpenSearch
• memcached
• ClamAV (This requires at least a m2.8 server. See ClamAV Sizing)
• wkhtmltopdf (See wkhtmltopdf on your appserver)

Specific deployment information

Rails

Optional:

• Ruby version
  • Or if you want to manage the Ruby version yourself (see here)
• Rubygems version
• Do you need NodeJS?
  • Which version or unmanaged?
  • System wide installation or per deployment?
• Is there a reason you can not use jemalloc Show archive.org snapshot (usually there is not)?

PHP

• Which PHP version?

Elixir

• Appname
• DB extensions
• Elixir/Erlang version
• Is the application built on our appserver or on another machine (locally on your PC, on a CI server)?

Loadbalancer / Proxy configuration

DNS

• Have you already registered a domain?
• Is DNS already configured ?
• Which domains/subdomains shall be configured?
• Is there some kind of "main" domain to which shall be redirected?

HTTPS/SSL configuration

• Disable HTTPS/SSL?
• Optional SSL (HTTP and HTTPS possible), forced SSL (HTTP redirected to HTTPS) or SSL only?
• On forced SSL: rewrite flag 301 or 302 (default)? See here
• Enable HSTS Show archive.org snapshot ?(default: on)
• Certificate: Let's Encrypt (default), self-provided, Extended Validation Show archive.org snapshot

Monitoring

• Is there a specific monitoring endpoint for our monitoring to be checked?
• Can we implement Loadbalancer HTTP checks?
• E-Mail notification contact (optional)

Common Loadbalancer configuration

• Are there any specific routes with non-default behavior? (e.g. separated asset vhost)
• Redirects for some URIs?
• Can we enable caching?
• Disable compression for certain routes?