Task List: northern.podzone.net

The following checklist provides a high-level breakdown of the work that needs to be done. Each of these are further decomposed below, where required:

  • [ ] Documentation
  • [ ] k8s prod cluster build
  • [ ] Networking build
  • [ ] Ingress Build
  • [ ] Security
  • [ ] Storage
  • [ ] Applications and Services
  • [ ] Testing

Task-list: Documentation

  • [ ] Tasklist
  • [ ] Hosts
  • [ ] Network topology
  • [ ] Inventory
  • [ ] Site structure

Task-list: k8s prod cluster build

  • [X] Install power, network, and first two nodes
  • [ ] Install ddclient and configure
  • [X] Total clean-up: snap remove microk8s
  • [X] Install microk8s, cluster nodes, and configure
  • [ ] DynDNS and Router config for test domain

Task-list: Networking build

  • [X] Ethernet cabling from router to switch
  • [X] Switch install and cabling to nodes
  • [X] Router config: Static IP assignments
  • [X] Client config: update hosts file
  • [ ] Router config: Port forward
  • [X] Router config: Set DHCP range to reserve LBR IP

Storage

Node IP addresses have changed. This is not supported by Ceph. Ceph cluster to be re-built from scratch.

  • [X] Total clean-up: snap remove microceph
  • [X] reinstall ceph on each node
  • [X] cluster ceph nodes
  • [X] disk assignment

Testing

  • [ ] t360 unit: Geekbench
  • [ ] Cluster High Availability testing
  • [ ] Cluster failure recovery
  • [ ] Web functional test
  • [ ] Application functional test

Procurement

Three node cluster

  • [X] EBay 20-11075-47632: 1 X t630 {dariaiddle 2}
  • [X] EBay 11-11081-94689: 3 X 128GB 2280 SSD
  • [X] EBay 23-11073-38931: 3 X 256GB 2242 SSD
  • [X] EBay 23-11073-47935: 3 X 16GB DDR4 RAM
  • [X] EBay 15-11092-59277: 1 X t630 {dariaiddle 3}
  • [X] EBay 10-11096-24713: 1 X t520 {chillitech_ltd}

Five node cluster

  • [X] EBay 05-11112-51382: 5 X t630 {dariaiddle}
  • [X] EBay 11-11107-65868: 5 X 16GB DDR4 RAM
  • [ ] EBay 23-11098-89931: 1 X 256GB 2242 SSD
  • [X] EBay 12-11141-17449: 5 X Cat6 0.5m ethernet cables
  • [X] EBay 12-11141-17448: 5 X 128GB 2280 SSD
  • [ ] EBay 12-11141-17446: 4 X 256GB 2242 SSD
  • [X] Amazon 206-2426422-7388328: 8 Port Gigabit switch
  • [X] The range: 6 way Power strip

Data server

  • [X] EBay 12-11141-17445: 1 X 2 TB 2280 SSD
  • [ ] EBay 12-11141-17447: NVMe + SATA adapter