April/24 Highlights; EKS Upgrades & Enhanced Monitoring / Advanced Security & Deployment Improvements
Aram Karapetyan • May 17, 2024
(DMVP-3648, DMVP-3783) Deployed stage environments and set up external health checks.
(DMVP-3679) Implemented EFS Lifecycle Management.
(DMVP-3778) Improved pipeline speed.
(DMVP-3871, DMVP-3862, DMVP-3920) Set up new URLs, adjusted rollout settings, and established VPNs for new database stages.
(DMVP-4054) Upgraded the client's EKS production cluster to 1.27.
(DMVP-1819, DMVP-3493) Set up alerts for blocked requests and job queue lengths on Grafana dashboards.
(DMVP-3279) Added maximum metrics to all widgets that previously displayed averages.
(DMVP-3907) Introduced log-based metrics and anomalies monitoring.
(DMVP-4033) Adjusted Cloudwatch dashboards and set new limits for CPU/memory monitoring
(DMVP-4026) Set up alarms to be sent to OpsGenie.
(DMVP-3394, DMVP-4040, DMVP-4016) Supported developers with tracing setup and addressed various production issues including database migrations, job failures, and service restarts.
(DMVP-3394, DMVP-4040, DMVP-4016) Supported developers with tracing setup and addressed various production issues including database migrations, job failures, and service restarts.
(DMVP-3754, DMVP-3755, DMVP-3878) Moved passwords and external secrets to secure repositories and created modules for managing secrets in GCP.
(DMVP-3955, DMVP-3952) Increased WAF alarm thresholds and reviewed security group resources.
(DMVP-2832) Provided support for specific branch deployments to test instances.
(DMVP-3842, DMVP-3938) Developed new pipelines for components and integrated deployment tools like deptrac into existing pipelines.
(DMVP-3899, DMVP-3900) Reviewed and fixed naming for dashboard widgets and alarms to improve clarity and consistency.
(DMVP-3919) Migrated data from development databases to new staging databases.
(DMVP-3921, DMVP-3903) Handled various application-specific issues like fixing UI kit npm download problems and adjusting application settings in Keycloak containers.