Maestro How-to Guides

Common tools

• Management Using Global Search

  Powerful search for your infrastructure inventory

• debugging Debugging Toolbelt SSH

  How to troubleshoot issues with Toolbelt SSH access

• SSH shell How to SSH to Servers

  Connect directly to your servers via secure shell access

• ssh,keys Generating local SSH keys

  How to generate SSH keys on your local machine

• Git Using Git repositories with Maestro

  Using git repositories like Github to manage and deploy code via Maestro

Configuration & deployment

• customization manifest Building a manifest file

  How to build a manifest file for your Maestro application

• build Building your Docker service (V1)

  How to build a Docker service in Maestro (Version 1 only)

• customization Using ConfigStore

  How to use ConfigStore to centralize and manage config values

• operations server Configuring for high availability

  How to congfigure your Maestro application for high availability with mutli-master architecture

• customization service.yml Custom service configurations

  How to specify custom service configurations for your application

• habitus, secrets Integrating Habitus secrets with Maestro

  How to integrate a Habitus build workflow with secrets into a Maestro application

• operations Using your own servers with Maestro

  How to use your own servers with Maestro

• customization Configure Service Networking

  Advanced service network configuration and port mapping

• operations Using Deployment Timeline

  How to use the deployment timeline to track and roll back deployments

• Logs Managing environment variables

  How to manage environment variables within Maestro

• Scaling addins Configuring HAProxy

  Configuring HAProxy to work with your Maestro application

• operations server How to delete your Physical Servers

  Physical servers deletion from your cloud

• operations service Customizing service life-cycle management

  How to manage your container life cycle

• customization security service.yml Service networking configuration (V1)

  Configure the service network

• operations storage Configuring Service storage

  How to add persistent storage to your application

• websocket Configuring WebSocket

  How to enable WebSocket in a Maestro application

• Environments Application Environments

  How to set up custom application environments in Maestro

• customization Configuring DNS

  How to configure your domain to work with Maestro

• Logs Managing log files

  How to manage your application log files within Maestro

• customization Deploying applications in parallel

  How to deploy an application across multiple servers simultaneously

• operations service Setting resource limits

  Managing resource usage for your Docker services

• high-availability Using failover groups

  How to set up and use a failover group

• operations security Enabling Deployment Authorization

  How to restrict which users can deploy your application(s)

• customization docker Connecting to Docker image repositories

  How to connect to public and private Docker image repositories via Maestro

• operations Manage your applications via Slack

  How to use Cloud 66 ChatOps to manage applications via Slack

• maintenance Managing required restarts

  How to handle required restarts

• high-availability Migrating your application between servers

  How to move your entire application to a new server or a new data center

• high-availability Configuring multi-region applications

  An overview of configuring your application to run across different regions

• customization Configuring for Multi-Tenancy

  How to configure applications to share the same infrastructure

• operations Using redeployment hooks

  How to use redeployment hooks to achieve automated deployments

• debugging logs Setting up custom LiveLog files

  How to configure custom logs for your applications

• customization Using symbolic links

  Using symlinks in Maestro applications

• update upgrade Applying system upgrades

  Applying upgrades and updates to your application components

• security Deploying behind a gateway server

  How to deploy your application to a DMZ

• haproxy high-availability Configuring HAProxy for WebSocket

  How to set up HAProxy for Websocket in a Maestro application

Using Databases with Maestro

• database Managing databases with Maestro

  Deploying and managing your database with Maestro

• databases replication Configuring database replication

  Configuring replication between databases

• MongoDB MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Customizing database configuration

  How to customize database configurations for Maestro applications

• databases encryption security Encrypting databases

  How to encrypt a database

• debugging Connecting to database servers

  How to connect to your database servers within Maestro

• backups, databases Managing database backups

  How to manage database backups in Maestro

• customization high-availability Using production data in staging environments

  How to configure your staging environment to use production data

• customization postgresql Installing PostGIS

  How to install PostGIS for a Maestro application

• Changing the PostgreSQL data directory

  How to change the data directory used by PostgreSQL

• customization Sharing databases between applications

  How to share a database between multiple applications in Maestro

• mysql Uninstalling MySQL

  How to uninstall default MySQL components on your own servers

Configuring Nginx

• customization Customizing your Nginx configuration

  How to customize the configuration of the Maestro Nginx proxy

• nginx Enabling basic authentication via Nginx

  How to enable Nginx's basic HTTP authentication

• nginx Enabling IP access control via Nginx

  How to restrict access to your application by IP address using Nginx

• customization Adding modules to Nginx

  How to add custom modules to Nginx in Maestro

• customization Configuring redirects in Nginx

  How to configure redirects for your application using Nginx

Configuring SSL

• ssl Adding an SSL certificate to Nginx

  How to add an SSL certificate to Nginx within Maestro

• security Configuring Let's Encrypt

  How to configure Let's Encrypt with Maestro

• ssl Enabling SSL termination on load balancers

  How to enable automatic SSL termination on load balancers in Maestro

• haproxy ssl Multi-certificate SSL for HAProxy

  How to configure multi-certificate SSL for HAProxy in Maestro

• nginx ssl Enabling stronger SSL security on Nginx

  How to adjust SSL cipher settings in Nginx

• security,SSL Remove passphrase from certificate key

  How to remove a passphrase from a certificate key

How to use Maestro with cloud providers

• operations Amazon Web Services

  Configuring Amazon Web Services for use with Maestro

• operations Microsoft Azure

  Configuring Microsoft Azure for use with Maestro

• operations DigitalOcean

  Configuring DigitalOcean for use with Maestro

• operations Google Compute Engine

  Configuring Google Compute Engine for use with Maestro

• operations Linode

  Configuring Linode for use with Maestro

• operations Packet

  Configuring Packet for use with Maestro

• operations Rackspace

  Configuring Rackspace for use with Maestro

Scaling your application

• Elasticsearch Scaling Elasticsearch clusters

  How to scale an Elasticsearch cluster in Maestro

• GlusterFS Scaling GlusterFS clusters

  How to scale GlusterFS clusters within Maestro

• MongoDB Scaling MongoDB with replica sets

  How to scale MongoDB using replica sets within Maestro

• customization Load testing

  How to load test your application

• customization Scaling your application servers

  An overview on scaling your application servers

Add-ins for your applications

• Add ins An introduction to Add-ins

  How to extend the functionality of your application with Maestro add-ins

• Add in Using the Jobs Add-in

  Run a scheduled or on-demand tasks on a server host or against a docker service

• Add in Customization Using the custom server add-in

  Adding custom servers to Maestro

• databases Using the database backup add-in

  Schedule and automate your database backups with this add-in

• Add in Using the Docker task Add-ins

  Schedule automated tasks on a Docker server host and/or service

• Add in Using the Elasticsearch Add-in

  How to add Elasticsearch to your application via Maestro

• Add ins Logs Using the Filebeat Add-in

  Adding a simple web-based log analysis service to your servers in Maestro

• Add in Using the GlusterFS Add-in

  How to add GlusterFS to your application via Maestro

• Add in Using the InfluxDB Add-in

  How to add the InfluxDB to your application via Maestro

• Add in Scaling Using the Load balancer Add-in

  How to add a load balancer to your application in Maestro

• Add ins Logs Using the Logentries Add-in

  Adding a web-based log analysis service to your servers via Maestro

• Add in Using the Memcached Add-in (V1)

  How to add Memcached to your application via Maestro

• Add in Using the RabbitMQ Add-in

  How to add RabbitMQ to your application via Maestro

• Add in Using the Redis Add-in

  How to add Redis to your application via Maestro

• Add in Using the shell command Add-in

  How to automate shell commands on your server(s) via Maestro

• Add in Security Using the SSL Add-in

  How to add SSL certificate(s) to your application via Maestro