IBM Server Migration Part #4

Web Server • Sep 21, 2018

In this part I want to have most viral services up and running on the final hardware.

Debian, RAID-1, HTTPS, Docker

Installing Debian 9.5 was as easy as always. One additional step that I learned was software RAID. The install script (text mode!) is very easy to use to I manage to setup everything with no problems.

Apache2 + Let's Encrypt SSL using cert-bot. That part was also straightforward. I still don't know how to make this work with Docker containers (Ghost in particular). But this is something for part #5 :)

Once the Docker-CE was installed. Bringing back all the containers was as easy as it can be. I copied the old volumes (mapped to /home/domain) and all docker services were online as before. This was the fastest migration ever.

Creating configs/folders/ownerships for Apache is easy but time consuming (as I needed to change my old .conf files). This part will take more time but I will remove any not needed sites in the process.

Dockerize All The Things!

Containers are the future.

Apache domains use ProxyPass for ports 8080-8087. Most of the sites are online. There are still lot of *.p1x.in subdomains waiting for resurrection.

Recovery Scenario

I was able to recover all databases and configs for docker sites. I fixed a lot of mistakes in my recovery scenarios. And I already tested them on living organism. I don't have backups configured yet. But RAID-1 covers my ass.

Summary

With new drives I have a lot of free space. With whole Debian 9.5 and dockers it only takes 6.6GB so far :)

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
tmpfs           396M  6.2M  390M   2% /run
/dev/md0        222G  6.6G  204G   4% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           396M     0  396M   0% /run/user/1000

Less than 1GB memory is used. And the CPU is mostly at 1-3%.

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