migrate discourse (discuss.ipfs.io) from self-hosted to hosted
eefahy opened this issue · comments
Things to do:
- review current storage needs and admin accounts
- contact discourse folks about migration
Yay \o/!
On that topic, we should reach out to @erlend-sh as he helped us with getting Discourse in the first place, with the migration to discuss.ipfs.io and he even has an account on our forum. He's a Community Advocate over at Discourse.
@eefahy can we have an ETA on this migration? It would be one more nice thing to remove from Infra's team plate
@daviddias I agree it would be great to remove from our plate but it’s a P2 atm and therefore pretty far down our list of things to get done.
@victorb do you have any bandwidth to take this one on?
I'm happy to move this forward. To do the migration, I need access to the machine and/or the web ui.
@lgierth can you add my user/key, please? I don't see any credentials in 1pass to let me do this myself.
@daviddias could you or someone else grant me Admin permissions on the forum? Per this guide, things like backups can only be triggered by admin-level users. I'm https://discuss.ipfs.io/u/mburns
@lgierth can you add my user/key, please? I don't see any credentials in 1pass to let me do this myself.
Yeah added both you and scout 👍
ping @daviddias - can @mburns get admin access to the forum please?
I've granted myself admin access via the rake task.
I've reached out to Discourse' sales people, and apparently Discourse will handle the migration if we go from self-hosted to hosted. Easy-peasy.
The migration itself looks easy. TODO
- announce migration / planned maintenance window on the forum
- stop forum
- backup/export
- Take DO snapshot
- import on hosted plan
- update DNS
- ✋ high fives all around ✋
Migration complete.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽! Thank you for shipping this!