MozMEAO SRE Status Report - September 19, 2017
Here’s what happened on the MozMEAO SRE team from September 5th - September 19th.
Current work
MDN Migration to AWS
- We’ve established a few target release dates for our milestones.
 - All attachment files are being synced from SCL3 to S3
    
- Previously, attachments from 2012 contained unicode characters in their filenames that prevents several *nix/AWS tools from working.
 
 - All HTTPD aliases have been addressed
 - Tested urllib3 v 1.22 against Elasticsearch
 - Implement database backup/restore process
 - Production AWS resources have been provisioned
 - Production Elasticsearch instance has been setup
 - MIME type analysis complete
 - Environment overrides for SCL3 settings in K8s
 - SSL certs have been re-requested with additional names
 - Split out credentials into Kubernetes secrets resources
 - Create Elasticsearch stage cluster
 - Using multi-AZ RDS for hosted MySQL (part 1)
 - Some architecture diagrams have been added to the repo
 - Establish a faster MySQL backup process from SCL3
 
Snippets
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Snippets has been deployed to the Portland cluster, in addition to the Frankfurt and Tokyo clusters.
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Some autoscaling inconsistencies between clusters were uncovered by Giorgos, which have been corrected via this PR.
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The Snippets production traffic policy has been changed from latency-based to weighted between Frankfurt/Portland/Tokyo.
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Giorgos also uncovered some Route 53 health check inconsistencies, and is working to make them more useful.
 
Upcoming Portland Deis 1 cluster decommissioning
The Deis 1 cluster in Portland decommissioning has been pushed out until next week due to support issues related to other applications.