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Alex Vandiver 2c26ad3714 docs: Break out and clarify wal-g backup configuration. 2022-03-17 12:53:26 -07:00
Alex Vandiver d17006da55 puppet: Support setting an `ssl_mode` verification level. 2022-03-15 12:43:50 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 253bef27f5 puppet: Support password-based PostgreSQL replication. 2022-03-15 12:43:50 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 6f5ae8d13d puppet: wal-g backups are required for replication.
Previously, it was possible to configure `wal-g` backups without
replication enabled; this resulted in only daily backups, not
streaming backups.  It was also possible to enable replication without
configuring the `wal-g` backups bucket; this simply failed to work.

Make `wal-g` backups always streaming, and warn loudly if replication
is enabled but `wal-g` is not configured.
2022-03-11 10:09:35 -08:00
Anders Kaseorg 75525f5b53 docs: Convert .html#fragment links to .md#fragment.
This uses the myst_heading_anchors option to automatically generate
header anchors and make Sphinx aware of them.  See
https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/optional.html#auto-generated-header-anchors.

Note: to be compatible with GitHub, MyST-Parser uses a slightly
different convention for .md fragment links than .html fragment links
when punctuation is involved.  This does not affect the generated
fragment links in the HTML output.

Fixes #13264.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2022-02-28 16:28:31 -08:00
Anders Kaseorg c19d6fb3ef docs: Clean redundant relative links.
We previously had a convention of redundantly including the directory
in relative links to reduce mistakes when moving content from one file
to another.  However, these days we have a broken link checker in
test-documentation, and after #21237, MyST-Parser will check relative
links (including fragments) when you run build-docs.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2022-02-24 16:12:18 -08:00
Anders Kaseorg e3572894c5 docs: Clean redundant fragment links to the same page.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2022-02-24 16:12:18 -08:00
Anders Kaseorg 1490c91011 docs: Fix list item indentation mistake.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2022-02-24 15:31:01 -08:00
Anders Kaseorg b0ce4f1bce docs: Fix many spelling mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2022-02-07 18:51:06 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 43d63bd5a1 puppet: Always set the RabbitMQ nodename to zulip@localhost.
This is required in order to lock down the RabbitMQ port to only
listen on localhost.  If the nodename is `rabbit@hostname`, in most
circumstances the hostname will resolve to an external IP, which the
rabbitmq port will not be bound to.

Installs which used `rabbit@hostname`, due to RabbitMQ having been
installed before Zulip, would not have functioned if the host or
RabbitMQ service was restarted, as the localhost restrictions in the
RabbitMQ configuration would have made rabbitmqctl (and Zulip cron
jobs that call it) unable to find the rabbitmq server.

The previous commit ensures that configure-rabbitmq is re-run after
the nodename has changed.  However, rabbitmq needs to be stopped
before `rabbitmq-env.conf` is changed; we use an `onlyif` on an `exec`
to print the warning about the node change, and let the subsequent
config change and notify of the service and configure-rabbitmq to
complete the re-configuration.
2022-01-25 01:48:02 +00:00
Alex Vandiver be1c4c2bd8 docs: Mention Camo does not use a local Smokescreen in the proxies docs.
This documents the new behaviour in d328d3dd4d.
2022-01-21 15:57:27 -08:00
Alex Vandiver d328d3dd4d puppet: Allow routing camo requests through an outgoing proxy.
Because Camo includes logic to deny access to private subnets, routing
its requests through Smokescreen is generally not necessary.  However,
it may be necessary if Zulip has configured a non-Smokescreen exit
proxy.

Default Camo to using the proxy only if it is not Smokescreen, with a
new `proxy.enable_for_camo` setting to override this behaviour if need
be.  Note that that setting is in `zulip.conf` on the host with Camo
installed -- not the Zulip frontend host, if they are different.

Fixes: #20550.
2022-01-07 12:08:10 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 2c5fc1827c puppet: Standardize what values are bools, and what true is.
For `no_serve_uploads`, `http_only`, which previously specified
"non-empty" to enable, this tightens what values are true.  For
`pgroonga` and `queue_workers_multiprocess`, this broadens the
possible values from `enabled`, and `true` respectively.
2022-01-07 12:08:10 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 6218ed91c2 puppet: Use lazy-apps and uwsgi control sockets for rolling reloads.
Restarting the uwsgi processes by way of supervisor opens a window
during which nginx 502's all responses.  uwsgi has a configuration
called "chain reloading" which allows for rolling restart of the uwsgi
processes, such that only one process at once in unavailable; see
uwsgi documentation ([1]).

The tradeoff is that this requires that the uwsgi processes load the
libraries after forking, rather than before ("lazy apps"); in theory
this can lead to larger memory footprints, since they are not shared.
In practice, as Django defers much of the loading, this is not as much
of an issue.  In a very basic test of memory consumption (measured by
total memory - free - caches - buffers; 6 uwsgi workers), both
immediately after restarting Django, and after requesting `/` 60 times
with 6 concurrent requests:

                      |  Non-lazy  |  Lazy app  | Difference
    ------------------+------------+------------+-------------
    Fresh             |  2,827,216 |  2,870,480 |   +43,264
    After 60 requests |  3,332,284 |  3,409,608 |   +77,324
    ..................|............|............|.............
    Difference        |   +505,068 |   +539,128 |   +34,060

That is, "lazy app" loading increased the footprint pre-requests by
43MB, and after 60 requests grew the memory footprint by 539MB, as
opposed to non-lazy loading, which grew it by 505MB.  Using wsgi "lazy
app" loading does increase the memory footprint, but not by a large
percentage.

The other effect is that processes may be served by either old or new
code during the restart window.  This may cause transient failures
when new frontend code talks to old backend code.

Enable chain-reloading during graceful, puppetless restarts, but only
if enabled via a zulip.conf configuration flag.

Fixes #2559.

[1]: https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/articles/TheArtOfGracefulReloading.html#chain-reloading-lazy-apps
2022-01-05 14:48:52 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 01e8f752a8 puppet: Use certbot package timer, not our own cron job.
The certbot package installs its own systemd timer (and cron job,
which disabled itself if systemd is enabled) which updates
certificates.  This process races with the cron job which Zulip
installs -- the only difference being that Zulip respects the
`certbot.auto_renew` setting, and that it passes the deploy hook.
This means that occasionally nginx would not be reloaded, when the
systemd timer caught the expiration first.

Remove the custom cron job and `certbot-maybe-renew` script, and
reconfigure certbot to always reload nginx after deploying, using
certbot directory hooks.

Since `certbot.auto_renew` can't have an effect, remove the setting.
In turn, this removes the need for `--no-zulip-conf` to
`setup-certbot`.  `--deploy-hook` is similarly removed, as running
deploy hooks to restart nginx is now the default; pass
`--no-directory-hooks` in standalone mode to not attempt to reload
nginx.  The other property of `--deploy-hook`, of skipping symlinking
into place, is given its own flog.
2021-12-09 13:47:33 -08:00
Alex Vandiver cb2d0ff32b postgresql: Support replication on PostgreSQL >= 11, document.
PostgreSQL 11 and below used a configuration file names
`recovery.conf` to manage replicas and standbys; support for this was
removed in PostgreSQL 12[1], and the configuration parameters were
moved into the main `postgresql.conf`.

Add `zulip.conf` settings for the primary server hostname and
replication username, so that the complete `postgresql.conf`
configuration on PostgreSQL 14 can continue to be managed, even when
replication is enabled.  For consistency, also begin writing out the
`recovery.conf` for PostgreSQL 11 and below.

In PostgreSQL 12 configuration and later, the `wal_level =
hot_standby` setting is removed, as `hot_standby` is equivalent to
`replica`, which is the default value[2].  Similarly, the
`hot_standby = on` setting is also the default[3].

Documentation is added for these features, and the commentary on the
"Export and Import" page referencing files under `puppet/zulip_ops/`
is removed, as those files no longer have any replication-specific
configuration.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/recovery-config.html
[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-WAL-LEVEL
[3]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/runtime-config-replication.html#GUC-HOT-STANDBY
2021-12-03 16:32:41 -08:00
Emilio López baea14ee57 docs: Clarify use of `loadbalancer.ips` when using a reverse proxy.
When Zulip is run behind one or more reverse proxies, you must
configure `loadbalancer.ips` so that Zulip respects the client IP
addresses found in the `X-Forwarded-For` header. This is not
immediately clear from the documentation, so this commit makes it more
clear and augments the existing examples to showcase this need.

Fixes: #19073
2021-12-03 13:59:31 -08:00
Alex Vandiver c33562f0a8 puppet: Default to installing smokescreen on application frontends.
This is an additional security hardening step, to make Zulip default
to preventing SSRF attacks.  The overhead of running Smokescreen is
minimal, and there is no reason to force deployments to take
additional steps in order to secure themselves against SSRF attacks.

Deployments which already have a different external proxy configured
will not gain a local Smokescreen installation, and running without
Smokescreen is supported by explicitly unsetting the `host` or `port`
values in `/etc/zulip/zulip.conf`.
2021-11-19 15:29:28 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 544e8c569e install: Switch default to PostgreSQL 14. 2021-11-08 18:21:46 -08:00
Anders Kaseorg a4dbc1edd4 docs: Format Markdown with Prettier.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-09-08 12:06:24 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 35c1c8d41b docs: Apply sentence single-spacing from Prettier.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-09-08 12:06:24 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 915884bff7 docs: Apply bullet style changes from Prettier.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-09-08 12:06:24 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 6145fdf678 docs: Rewrap to avoid line breaks in inline code spans.
This works around https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/11372.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-09-08 12:06:24 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 646c04eff2 Rename default branch to ‘main’.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-09-06 12:56:35 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg b29b6f6526 docs: Add syntax highlighting languages to code blocks.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-08-20 06:14:47 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 528e5adaab smokescreen: Default to only listening on 127.0.0.1.
This prevents Smokescreen from acting as an open proxy.

Fixes #19214.
2021-07-14 15:40:26 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 161645c83c docs: Link to install-existing-server from production/deployment. 2021-06-02 17:16:14 -07:00
Adam Birds 3c28fa033d docs: Update documentation for new database user and dbname flags.
Updated the install documentation to include the explanation of the
two new install options `--postgresql-database-name` and
`--postgresql-database-user`.
2021-05-25 13:56:05 -07:00
Tim Abbott 6777660e02 deployment: Document smokescreen default and configuration. 2021-05-13 11:05:47 -07:00
Alex Vandiver a9ced1d228 smokescreen: Capitalize Smokescreen in documentation. 2021-05-12 12:32:39 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 544bbd5398 docs: Fix capitalization mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-05-10 09:57:26 -07:00
Adam Birds ceb4b239c4 docs: Update install docs to document the install options correctly.
Update `docs/production/install.md` and
`docs/production/deployment.md` to document the install flags that can
be used as part of the installer more clearly.

Fixes #18122.
2021-04-27 19:44:05 -07:00
Jennifer Hwang c9f5946239 puppet: Add override for queue_workers_multiprocess.
With tweaks to the documentation by tabbott.

This uses the following configuration option:

[application_server]
queue_workers_multiprocess = false
2021-04-20 14:37:15 -07:00
Alex Vandiver de46edf966 docs: Remove unused X-Client-IP header from haproxy configuration.
This is unrelated to the X-Real-IP configuration that nginx will add,
and is unused by Zulip.  Remove it, to reduce confusion.
2021-03-31 14:19:38 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 129ea6dd11 nginx: Consistently listen on IPv6 and with HTTP/2.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2021-03-17 17:46:32 -07:00
Alex Vandiver d938dd9d4a puppet: Document smokescreen installation, and move to puppet/zulip/.
This is more broadly useful than for just Kandra; provide
documentation and means to install Smokescreen for stand-alone
servers, and motivate its use somewhat more.
2021-03-02 17:16:38 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 0b736ef4cf puppet: Remove puppet_ops configuration for separate loadbalancer host. 2021-02-22 16:05:13 -08:00
Alex Vandiver 6b9d7000b5 puppet: Set proxy environment variables.
These are respected by `urllib`, and thus also `requests`.  We set
`HTTP_proxy`, not `HTTP_PROXY`, because the latter is ignored in
situations which might be running under CGI -- in such cases it may be
coming from the `Proxy:` header in the request.
2020-10-28 12:17:35 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 5eb8064a1a install: Rename postgres options to postgresql. 2020-10-28 11:55:32 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 1f7132f50d docs: Standardize on PostgreSQL, not Postgres. 2020-10-28 11:55:16 -07:00
Tim Abbott 3a4b38d732 docs: Clarify discussion of no_serve_uploads. 2020-10-27 13:39:14 -07:00
Alex Vandiver a155430eb5 docs: Document all zulip.conf settings.
This provides a single reference point for all zulip.conf settings;
these mostly link out to the more complete documentation about each
setting, elsewhere.

Fixes #12490.
2020-10-27 13:31:57 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 0f25acc7b3 puppet: Rename "voyager"/"dockervoyager" to "standalone"/"docker".
The "voyager" name is non-intuitive and not significant.
`zulip::voyager` and `zulip::dockervoyager` stubs are kept for
back-compatibility with existing `zulip.conf` files.
2020-10-27 13:29:19 -07:00
Alex Vandiver c2185a81d6 puppet: Move top-level zulip deployments into "profile" directory.
This moves the puppet configuration closer to the "roles and profiles
method"[1] which is suggested for organizing puppet classes.  Notably,
here it makes clear which classes are meant to be able to stand alone
as deployments.

Shims are left behind at the previous names, for compatibility with
existing `zulip.conf` files when upgrading.

[1] https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2019.8/the_roles_and_profiles_method
2020-10-27 13:29:19 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 72d6ff3c3b docs: Fix more capitalization issues.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2020-10-23 11:46:55 -07:00
Alex Vandiver 50e9e2ed20 puppet: Make zulip::base include zulip::apt_repository.
There was likely more dependency complexity prior to 97766102df, but
there is now no reason to require that consumers explicitly include
zulip::apt_repository.
2020-10-22 11:30:53 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 6dea085187 docs: Correct “login” as a verb to “log in”.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2020-08-11 10:25:53 -07:00
Anders Kaseorg 64b2212c23 docs: Correct “setup” as a verb to “set up”.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2020-08-11 10:25:53 -07:00
Tim Abbott 4baf5d73d9 docs: Fix incorrect path to restart-server. 2020-07-31 16:09:00 -07:00
Tim Abbott 92d33070dd docs: Improve explanation of running master.
It's a bit annoying we haven't renamed master yet, but we'll do that
in a bulk pass.
2020-07-08 12:17:59 -07:00