03.06.2023 TT Agenda - QualitativeDataRepository/TechnicalTeam GitHub Wiki

Admin:

  • instance renewals

Check-ins:

Seba

  • Ubuntu upgrades 18.04 (reaching end of life in April)

  • Looking to update to 22.04

  • Building an instance image for 22.04; updating chef cookbooks (to manage version dependencies, etc); updating terraform

  • Seba will do internal work first, and then application stuff second... Goal is to be able to do that when the time comes...

  • Seba will need to build a new Dev - and sync with Jim to move over each environment - dev, stage, and prod..

    • Chef server has already upgraded

  • Payara, etc need to be reinstalled on the clean instance...

    • What needs to be updated internally: VPN, Chef, Nagios, Jenkins [ End of March?]
    • What needs to be updated app wise: PhP, Python ...

  • Jim + Seba

  • Jim - https://github.com/QualitativeDataRepository/TechnicalTeam/wiki/3-6-2023-Tech-Team-Report

Notes:

RIs

  • Main reason for savings plan is that you might reserve an "instance family" eg Micro, XL, etc
  • The benefit would be paying less for instances across the same size
  • SK - leaning towards savings plan -