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title: The Tote Production Readiness Review  - 13th & 14th May 2020

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# The Tote Production Readiness Review  - 13th & 14th May 2020

## Participants

### Jetstack

* [Jon Tutcher](mailto:jon.tutcher@jetstack.io)
* [Dan Jones](mailto:daniel.jones@jetstack.io)

### The Tote

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## Video call

* Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88935499564?pwd=QkxORDVmMHlPaW85Y3JBWXBFQUd6UT09

## Questions

*Just ask here or in the video chat*


### Links

- [This page](https://hackmd.io/@jetstack/tote_prr)
- [google groups GKE RBAC](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/role-based-access-control#google-groups-for-gke)
- [terraformer - create terraform config from gogle cloud](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer)

## Agenda - Wednesday

* Introduction
* Establish where to focus in the next two days (e.g. break out sessions)
* High level overview of architecture of cluster including applications running on it

## Agenda (Ideas)

* Introduction
* Chat about motivations / aims of the PRR (For The Tote)
* Architecture Walk-through & discussion
* High Availability (HA) - What are the availablilty requirements?
* Platform maturity
    * Readiness/Liveness probes
        * We're not using many at the moment. 
    * Resources management of containers
    * Dynamic scaling
        * Workload autoscaling (VPA, HPA)
        * Cluster autoscaling
* Applications / Workloads
    * Stateful applications?
    * Ingress in depth

* Observability
    * Logging & Monitoring

* Security
    * RBAC (for e.g. on-call Devs)
    * PSP
* Going over general pitfalls of cluster setup

* Disaster recovery
    * Can we recreate the production cluster?

* Questions:
    * Scaling - how are we scaling at the moment?
        * Scaling on CPU?
    * Monitoring - 
    * etcd - is it set up well?
        * GKE - probably don't need to worry about it
        * 


* Divergence between stage and prod - what's different?
* Show us your Gitlab CI! 



### Agenda - Thursday

* Cluster Details & boring questions (in detail)
    * sorted (before lunch)
* Topics to revisit in depth
    * JT: some dockerfiles of services?
* Future expansion / suggestions

### Schedule (Both Days) 

|                 |    (BST)    |
|-----------------|-------------|
| Start           | 09.00       |
| Break           | 10.20-10.35 |
| Lunch           | 12:00-13:00 |
| Break           | 14.20-14.30 |
| Break           | 15.50-16.00 |
| Finish          | 17:00       |

### Notes

### Links

* VMWare Valero: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero
* Octant: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant
* Quay: https://quay.io/
* kubectx: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx
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