Holo-Host / holo-hydra-create

Installation script for Holo Hydra on Digital Ocean droplet

This set of scripts aims to create fresh instance of holo-nixpkgs based Hydra on a Digital Ocean droplet. The process consists of two stages - creating server and restoring configuration from keystore file and backup.

Ownership Info

Codeowner: @peeech Consulted: None Informed: @zo-el

Creating server

First create new droplet on Digital Ocean with minimum 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu 20.04 x64 operating system. Use your ssh key for authentication. Choose a datacenter region Amsterdam 3 and VPC Network Hydra-ams3. Also enable ipv6.

Ssh into your new droplet. Exec in shell:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Holo-Host/holo-hydra-create/master/holo-hydra-create | bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/hydra_config.log

After successful run system will reboot into newly created empty Hydra.

Restoring configuration

First import a file hydra-keystore.enc to server's ~/ dir. The file is encrypted and password protected as it contains all the security credentials required to configure Hydra. It will be securely erased after successful creation of Hydra. The file itself and encryption password can be obtained from Service Ops, or created from hydra-keystore-template and encrypted using command:

openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in hydra-keystore-template -out hydra-keystore.enc

Once hydra-keystore.enc is in place run

holo-hydra-restore

and watch terminal output for prompts.

You should see the line Hydra restored from backup successfully. From now on wait ~1h for hydra to finish evaluations or watch logs with journalctl -f -u hydra-evaluator until evaluations are done.

Promtail config

Promtail service sends logs from Hydra to Grafana. Make sure to place API token in a file:

-r-------- 1 promtail promtail 118 Jun 17 20:23 /var/lib/promtail-auth/api-token

Updating TLS certs

There are two urls served from Hydra server: hydra.holo.host and holoportbuild.holo.host, both via https. Before you switch DNS to newly created machine make sure to copy content of /var/lib/acme/hydra.holo.host/ and /var/lib/acme/holoportbuild.holo.host/ from old working Hydra to the one currently created. Once you copy those make sure to restart nginx.servce on new Hydra.

Switching instances

DNS entry hydra.holo.host and holoportbuild.holo.host are both pointing to Load Balancer hosted on Digitalocean under IP 174.138.104.59. Load Balancer Console shows which instance of Hydra is currently receiving traffic. If you need to switch instances do it in this console, by FIRST removing an old droplet and THEN adding a new one.

IMPORTANT: Hydra-load-balancer can be pointing only to one instance of Hydra at the same time, otherwise Hydra will enter inconsistent state.

A new instance Status will be showing as Down for the first 20s, afterwards it will turn to Healthy. During that period hydra.holo.host will be down.

Minions

Hydra needs 2 minions - arm64 and darwin machines. Both of them need to be set up as separate servers.

Minion 1 - ARM

To create minion-1 do what follows:

• In Holo AWS account (Ohio us-east-2) find AMI "Hydra ARM minion"
• Based on this AMI launch an instance:
  • t4g.xlarge
  • 200GB General Purpose SSD
  • port 22 open to 0.0.0.0
  • you can choose any key at final dialog

once instance is ready you can ssh to it with any key listed in <holo-nixpkgs/profiles/logical/holo/default.nix>. Make sure to change DNS entry hydra-minion-1.holo.host and you're good to go.

Minion 2 - Darwin

Currently minion-2 is hosted on MacStadium.

Access existing machine:

• users listed in <holo-nixpkgs/profiles/logical/holo/default.nix> can ssh into minion-2 using ssh [e-mail] -i <your_ssh_key>
• everybody else can use VNC to connect to the screen of macOs. Login credentials should be obtained from TechOps

To create minion-2 do what follows:

• create new machine on MacStadium
• follow instructions to connect to it over VNC
• open terminal and via CLI copy keys from <holo-nixpkgs/profiles/logical/holo/default.nix> into /Users/administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys
• install nix
• add to /etc/nix/nix.conf

build-users-group = nixbld
trusted-users = administrator

• reboot
• update DNS entry for hydra-minion-2.holo.host

In case macs from MacStadium were not available you can convert any Mac laptop into minion, as long as it has a static IP and can be accessed over ssh from outside. Just follow above instructions.

Creating database backup

Hydra stores history of builds in postgres db. If you feel that you need to back up that kind of data holo-hydra-create-backup will create backup and upload it to wasabi. Prior to running it fill out AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and RESTIC_PASSWORD in a script file.

Acknowledgements

Based on nixos-infect.