Feedback from the 2018-08-07 failover attempt

.gitlab/issue_templates/failover.md

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ an hour before the scheduled maintenance window.
 1. [ ] 🔪 {+ Chef-Runner +}: Stop automatic incremental GitLab Pages sync
     * Disable the cronjob on the **Azure** pages NFS server
     * This cronjob is found on the Pages Azure NFS server. The IPs are shown in the next step
-    * `sudo crontab -e` to get an editor window, comment out the line involving rsync
+    * `sudo crontab -e` to get an editor window, comment out the line involving a pages-sync script
 1. [ ] 🔪 {+ Chef-Runner +}: Start parallelized, incremental GitLab Pages sync
     * Expected to take ~30 minutes, run in screen/tmux! On the **Azure** pages NFS server!
     * Updates to pages after the transfer starts will be lost.
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ Running CI jobs will no longer be able to push updates. Jobs that complete now m
     * In a separate terminal on the deploy host: `/opt/gitlab-migration/migration/bin/scripts/02_failover/060_go/p02/030-await-sidekiq-drain.sh`
     * The `geo_sidekiq_cron_config` job or an RSS kill may re-enable the crons, which is why we run it in a loop
     * The loop should be stopped once sidekiq is shut down
+    * Wait for `--> Status: PROCEED`
 1. [ ] 🐺 {+ Coordinator +}: Wait for repository verification on the **primary** to complete
     * Staging: https://staging.gitlab.com/admin/geo_nodes - `staging.gitlab.com` node
     * Production: https://gitlab.com/admin/geo_nodes - `gitlab.com` node
@@ -325,9 +326,9 @@ state of the secondary to converge.
 
 #### Phase 3: Draining [📁](bin/scripts/02_failover/060_go/p03)
 
-1. [ ] 🐺 {+ Coordinator +}: Ensure any data not replicated by Geo is replicated manually. We know about [these](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/replication/index.html#examples-of-unreplicated-data):
-    * [ ] CI traces in Redis
-        * Run `::Ci::BuildTraceChunk.redis.find_each(batch_size: 10, &:use_database!)`
+1. [ ] 🐺 {+ Coordinator +}: Flush CI traces in Redis to the database
+    * In a Rails console in Azure:
+    * `::Ci::BuildTraceChunk.redis.find_each(batch_size: 10, &:use_database!)`
 1. [ ] 🐺 {+ Coordinator +}: Wait for all repositories and wikis to become synchronized
     * Staging: https://gstg.gitlab.com/admin/geo_nodes
     * Production: https://gprd.gitlab.com/admin/geo_nodes
@@ -355,10 +356,10 @@ state of the secondary to converge.
     * The loop should be stopped once sidekiq is shut down
     * The `geo_sidekiq_cron_config` job or an RSS kill may re-enable the crons, which is why we run it in a loop
 1. [ ] 🐺 {+ Coordinator +}: Wait for all Sidekiq jobs to complete on the secondary
-    * Review status of the running Sidekiq monitor script started in [phase 2, above](#phase-2-commence-shutdown-in-azure-), wait for `--> Status: PROCEED`
-    * Need more details?
-        * Staging: Navigate to [https://gstg.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs](https://gstg.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs)
-        * Production: Navigate to [https://gprd.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs](https://gprd.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs)
+    * Staging: Navigate to [https://gstg.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs](https://gstg.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs)
+    * Production: Navigate to [https://gprd.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs](https://gprd.gitlab.com/admin/background_jobs)
+    * `Busy`, `Enqueued`, `Scheduled`, and `Retry` should all be 0
+    * If a `geo_metrics_update` job is running, that can be ignored
 1. [ ] 🔪 {+ Chef-Runner +}: Stop sidekiq in GCP
     * This ensures the postgresql promotion can happen and gives a better guarantee of sidekiq consistency
     * Staging: `knife ssh roles:gstg-base-be-sidekiq "sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq-cluster"`

bin/scripts/02_failover/060_go/p02/030-await-sidekiq-drain.rb

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if ENV["FAILOVER_ENVIRONMENT"] == "stg" || `hostname -f` == "deploy.stg.gitlab.c
   $purge_allowed << "background_migration"
 end
 
-$dry_run = true
+$dry_run = false
 
 def queue_can_be_purged(queue_name)
   # Make sure that the geo crons are not included in this list...