Maestro How-to Guides

Common tools

• Management Using Global Search

  Powerful search for your infrastructure inventory

• notifications slack Enabling Slack notifications

  How to enable Cloud 66 notifications to your Slack workspace

• 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

• debugging Accessing your Kubernetes instance directly

  You can quickly access the cluster instance for any Maestro app. Here is how to do it.

• Git Using Git repositories with Maestro

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

Configuration & deployment

• operations Using your own servers with Maestro

  How to use your own servers with Maestro

• operations Using Deployment Timeline

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

• customization Configuring DNS

  How to configure your domain to work with Maestro

• customization Choosing a deployment strategy

  How to choose and set a deployment strategy for your application - serial or parallel.

• Troubleshooting Troubleshooting server issues

  How to diagnose and fix some common issues that may cause your servers to be unreachable or unresponsive.

• customization Examples of deploy hooks

  Some working examples of deploy hooks in action

• operations security Enabling Deployment Authorization

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

• operations Using redeployment hooks

  How to use redeployment hooks to achieve automated deployments

• customization Service Tags and Annotations

  How tags and annotations are propagated from Maestro to Kubernetes

• operations server How to delete your Physical Servers

  Physical servers deletion from your cloud

• operations service Configuring Pod updates

  Setting max unavailable and max surge for rolling Pod updates

• update upgrade Querying server metadata

  How to query a server's metadata via command line or deploy hook

• 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

• 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

• operations Tagging components

  How to tag infrastructural and configuration components in Maestro

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 manually 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 Manually adding an SSL cert to Nginx

  How to manually 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

• ssl Disabling older versions of TLS

  How to disable support for older versions of TLS

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 Cloud-A

  Configuring Cloud-A 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 Hetzner Cloud

  Configuring Hetzner Cloud for use with Maestro

• operations OVHcloud

  Configuring OVHcloud for use with Maestro

• operations Packet

  Configuring Packet for use with Maestro

• operations Rackspace

  Configuring Rackspace for use with Maestro

• operations Vultr

  Configuring Vultr 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

• databases Using the database backup Add-In

  Schedule and automate your database backups with this add-in

• Add in Scaling Using the Load balancer Add-in

  How to add a load balancer to your application in Maestro

• Add in Using the Server Jobs 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

• Add in Customization Using the custom server add-in

  Adding custom servers to Maestro

• Add in Using the Application Jobs Add-in

  Schedule automated tasks against your Maestro services

• Add in Using the Redis Add-in

  How to add Redis to your application via Maestro

• Add in Using the Elasticsearch Add-in

  How to add Elasticsearch to your application via 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 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