Episode 117 - Planning Maintenance

Welcome to Episode 117 Main Topic Preparing for Maintenance How do you make sure a new deployment is ready for prime time?  Testing How do you plan a maintenance window?  Do you have pre-set maintenance windows? What is considered “down time” for your business?  Or maybe just what isnt prime time? How do you prepare your team for a go-live?  Is your new deployment well defined? Documentation Architecture diagrams? Can another admin jump in using your docs and troubleshoot a problem? Has it passed whatever security checks your business has? What about vendor involvement?  How do you spend the first week (or weeks?) after go-live?  Increased monitoring How do you “operationalize”?  Announcements Patreon Update Z-Thor name_pending197 Jérémy Arinomi Andrew Tatro Bruce Robert Matt David S0l3mn Trooper_Ish LiNuXsys666 gimpyb Mark The-Mentor Jon Marc Julius Andi J Charles 22532 Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin  Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin  Chat Jason finally beat halo infinite Nate’s still valheiming Truly open metaverse? https://opensource.com/article/22/1/open-source-metaverse    Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/