Social.Coop Tech Group: Operations repository

This is the home of the social.coop tech group!

Useful repos/places/links

• this repo tech/operations
• issues
• meetings
  • every 2 weeks on Wednesday at 19:30 UTC on even numbered ISO weeks
  • meeting pad
  • tech meeting minutes
• communication
  • matrix chat #socialcoop-tech:matrix.org
  • tech loomio group
• tech governance
  • server access (to vote for giving people access to server)
• server config
  • ansible
  • sauce repo (to be full replaced by ansible)

Domain name

Passwords

We ues pass for password management, passwords are stored in our pass repo.

Email

Transactional email

We use mailgun for emails sent by mastodon.

@social.coop email addresses

@social.coop email is handled by webarch.mail. From there you can setup email aliases, forwarding, etc...

Aliases we use:

• tech.group@social.coop
• admin@social.coop

git

Our git home is git.coop/social.coop/tech

Media storage

We use DigitalOcean Spaces to store mastodon media images.

Backups

Database backups are stored in our DigitalOcean Space. Configure by the pg-dump-to-s3 ansible role.

There is nothing else stateful on the server (I think!).

Monitoring / metrics

We have some server metrics setup with datadog.

Server

We have a dedicated server at Hetzner:

• 32GB RAM (4x RAM 8192 MB DDR3)
• i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz).
• 2x 250 GB disks (SSD)
• Ubuntu 18.04

The disks are arranged as:

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda             8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk 
├─sda1          8:1    0     1G  0 part /boot
└─sda2          8:2    0 222.6G  0 part 
  ├─vg0-root1 253:0    0    25G  0 lvm  /
  ├─vg0-root2 253:1    0    25G  0 lvm  
  └─vg0-opt   253:2    0 396.1G  0 lvm  /opt
sdb             8:16   0 223.6G  0 disk 
└─sdb1          8:17   0 223.6G  0 part 
  └─vg0-opt   253:2    0 396.1G  0 lvm  /opt

Using LVM such that we have:

  LV    VG  Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  opt   vg0 -wi-ao---- 396.13g                                                    
  root1 vg0 -wi-ao----  25.00g                                                    
  root2 vg0 -wi-a-----  25.00g 

opt is mounted at /opt.