Console
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Console instances are used to provide Rails console access to GitLab team members for debugging the rails application using a given environments data.
Lead Time
Section titled “Lead Time”Access is generally granted RO as requested by development teams, and as such, rebooting these instances at will should generally be fine. It’s important to check with the SRE on call before rebooting the RW machines, as they are occasionally used to validate and perform fixes in production during high severity incidents.
System Identification
Section titled “System Identification”Knife query:
knife search node 'roles:gprd-base-console*' -iProcess
Section titled “Process”See Linux Patching Overview for generic processes applied to all Linux systems.
- Notify SRE on call that the machines are being rebooted
- Perform package updates
- Reboot the machine
Additional Automation Tooling
Section titled “Additional Automation Tooling”None exists currently