Overview

This article is in progress and covers our first attempt at putting the Bonsai Framework infrastructure on the cloud. We have the following final targets,

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Server Notes for bfgroupdiag538 (Move into Separate File Later)

Next Steps

•  Automated Backups Moved to Offsite
•  Add Google Analytics
•  Remove no robots and start adding into Google and Forums
•  Setup monitoring to focused on measuring performance to resize
•  If it makes sense resize to lower costs (2 smaller servers instead of the 1 big)

February 22, 2017

• Resized the zpool to 20GB because containers were throwing out of space errors

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• Server was resized to fit confluence $51.56/month
• Memory increased to 3.5GB
• Virtual Server = bonsaifw02host
• Built using 16.04 LTS
• Fully migrated and www.bonsaiframework.com is now live
• Next steps Working on backup solution

January 24, 2017

We created first iteration straight migration VMs.

• Resource Group = 
• Virtual Server = bonsaifw01host
• Built using Ubuntu 16.10 (we'll switch back to LTS for iteration 2)
• 3 LXD Tiers created (all using LXD dynamic IPs)
• NAT setup for port 80 host to web server
• Azure Native Firewall (NSG) port 80 Configured
• Confluence Installed and ready for first run to migrate the data.

January 17, 2017

• Roderick gave Tin access
• Tin created virtual machine using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS per research with setupadmin
• Roderick logged in added fail2ban and then rest of BonsaiFramework Setup

Installed LXD with following,

Name of the storage backend to use (dir or zfs) [default=zfs]: 
Create a new ZFS pool (yes/no) [default=yes]? 
Name of the new ZFS pool [default=lxd]: 
Would you like to use an existing block device (yes/no) [default=no]? 
Size in GB of the new loop device (1GB minimum) [default=15]: 
Would you like LXD to be available over the network (yes/no) [default=no]? 
Would you like stale cached images to be updated automatically (yes/no) [default=yes]? 
Would you like to create a new network bridge (yes/no) [default=yes]? 
What should the new bridge be called [default=lxdbr0]? 
What IPv4 subnet should be used (CIDR notation, "auto" or "none") [default=auto]? 
What IPv6 subnet should be used (CIDR notation, "auto" or "none") [default=auto]? 
LXD has been successfully configured.

Server Notes

All changes are now recorded into our server notes.