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Confluence Server Log 2017 on Azure

Confluence Server Log 2017 on Azure

Nov 24, 2017

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What are we doing next.

Operations

Hardening Web Server
Added to other popular search engines and some forums.
Panel widget CSS appears to be broken.
If free for our needs, setup Azure Application Insights 
32-bit vs 64-bit Java performance now
Moving to Cloud if it's cheaper and 64-bit Java
Why does Mobile version searching not find non-titled content (information not in title of a page) - due to product limitation for now and so vote on ticket (once I find it)
Anonymous comment icon not showing up.
Change IP of database lxc server from 10.0.3.20 to 10.0.3.21 for more consistency in naming convention. Note I checked and confluence.cfg.xml references by dnsmasq name.
Automated Backups Moved to Offsite
Setup monitoring to focused on measuring performance to resize
Evaluate if we can somehow lower the cost with a smaller server.

Plugins

SSO with Google Accounts - https://www.appfusions.com/display/GAPPSAUTHC/Documentation looks promising
Code Pro for Confluence - load source control into Confluence pages from github

November 24, 2017 - Renew of Online License Key, Tin

Product License renewal. Must use Tin's personal gmail account to log into My Atlassian,

  • Direct link provided through Confluence reminder.

  • After new licence keys issues, copy into Confluence.

  • License now expires, Dec 27, 2018

September 15, 2017 - Updates and Server Reboot, Roderick

  • Bonsai went down due to stuck thread

  • Applied server updates  (for what?) and rebooted the server

August 4, 2017 - Server Rebooted, Roderick

  • Bonsai went down from a host reboot, had to reboot the server to clear the hung threads

July 21, 2017 - Updates and Rebooted Server, Roderick

  • System update and reboot

June 2, 2017 - Installed Redaction to Secure Specific Content, Tin

  • Updated all plugins to current.

  • Installed Redaction ... looks promising to secure specific content

May 26, 2017 - Disabling Automatic Security Updates, Roderick

  • Disabled Automatic Security Updates located in 20auto-upgrades

May 5, 2017 - Added Offsite Backups for Confluence, Roderick

  • Added Automated backups moved to Offsite

April 12, 2017 - Disabling Automatic Updates, Roderick

  • Disabled Automatic Updates in file 10periodic

March 26, 2017 - Hardened Apache, Roderick

  • Secured Apache

February 23, 2017 - Added Analytics, Roderick

  • Added Google Analytics

February 22, 2017

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

  • Turned off robots.txt (prevents Search Engines from calling)

  • Submitted www.bonsaiframework.com to Google Search Engine (Search Console)

  • Added Balsamiq plug-in through Confluence web console

Feb 22, 2017 - Made Bonsai Framework Searchable on the Internet, Tin

Now that we are stable with a much larger server, we can make the Bonsai Framework searchable on the Internet. We'll start with Google, but should include the other top engines,

  • 10:00pm - Turned off robots.txt (which prevents Search Engines from calling)

  • 10:03pm - Submitted www.bonsaiframework.com to Google Search Engine (Search Console) while logged in as tin.pham@gmail.com (not sure if logging in matters)

  • Added Balsamiq plug-in through Confluence web console (free for non-profits) and submitted tin.pham@gmail profile linked to Confluence

February 08, 2017 - Resized Confluence Server, Roderick

  • 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 - LXD, Tin, Roderick

We created first iteration straight migration VMs.

  • Resource Group = bfgroup

  • 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 - Server Configuration, Tin, Roderick

  • 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.