Drive Crash 6: The Great Roses 2023 Drive Crash: Difference between revisions

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* Hard-coding various keys into the Sports Graphics deployment configuration to get it to start
* Hard-coding various keys into the Sports Graphics deployment configuration to get it to start


The award for most spectacular bodge, though, has to go to Marks temporarily pointing the DNS for "*.prod.ystv.co.uk" to URY's web server, which they configured as a reverse proxy pointing to Sports Graphics (also copying a wildcard TLS certificate and private key to URY in the process...) - this wasn't actually strictly necessary, but meant that the team could reboot Web at will without causing issues. With multiple layers of bodges, hacks, and horribleness in place, the team kept enough infrastructure going to deliver the biggest Roses ever.
The award for most spectacular bodge, though, has to go to Marks temporarily pointing the DNS for "*.prod.ystv.co.uk" to [[URY]]'s web server, which they configured as a reverse proxy pointing to Sports Graphics (also copying a wildcard TLS certificate and private key to URY in the process...) - this wasn't actually strictly necessary, but meant that the team could reboot Web at will without causing issues. With multiple layers of bodges, hacks, and horribleness in place, the team kept enough infrastructure going to deliver the biggest Roses ever.


== The Fallout ==
== The Fallout ==
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Unfortunately there were some permanent casualties. Users' home directories and emails were gone forever. Every cloud has a silver lining though: the team had just been discussing about moving emails to Google Workspace (hosted under YUSU's domain), specifically about how to handle moving over "legacy" on-prem emails - them no longer existing made the decision much easier.
Unfortunately there were some permanent casualties. Users' home directories and emails were gone forever. Every cloud has a silver lining though: the team had just been discussing about moving emails to Google Workspace (hosted under YUSU's domain), specifically about how to handle moving over "legacy" on-prem emails - them no longer existing made the decision much easier.
== External Links ==
* [https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1h_088clpJNuPGto5-polZUkJKjhxowbVTacxPg8PEwc/edit Post-mortem] (on the team Google Drive)


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