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All servers are set up with a cpantesters user which runs the CPAN Testers services and cron jobs. All users on all machines are allowed to use sudo to become cpantesters (sudo -u cpantesters -i) to run commands.

Note: The database server is donated by ServerCentral, but is not globally available via SSH, and is such not listed here. Contact Doug Bell (doug@preaction.me), Zach Dykstra (zdykstra@servercentral.com), or Phil Doroff pdoroff@servercentral.com for any issues with the database server.

cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk

Billing contact: Mark Keating (Enlightened Perl Organization)
Support contact: support@bytemark.co.uk

cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk

Billing contact: Donated by Bytemark
Support contact: support@bytemark.co.uk

cpantesters1.barnyard.co.uk

Billing contact: Donated by David Cantrell
Support contact: David Cantrell

monitor.preaction.me

Billing contact: Donated by Doug Bell
Support contact: Doug Bell (doug@preaction.me)

Services

All service daemons are run with runit in the cpantesters user home directory (~/service).

To restart a service: sv restart ~/service/<service>. To restart all services: sv restart ~/service/*. If the restart has a timeout, you can kill the runsv <service> process and it will be automatically restarted (by the runsvdir process).

All services are logged to ~/service/<service>/log/current.

There is now a Rex task to easily restart services on multiple machines. See Rex below.

Legacy Backend

• Handles
  • Writing CPAN uploads table
  • Sending report notification e-mails
• Hosted on
  • cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk
• Documentation

Legacy Webapp

• Hosted on
  • cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk (www.cpantesters.org)

API

The API is load balanced by Fastly. Every web app is proxied via an Apache server running on the same machine.

• Daemons
  • api - Read/write CPAN Testers data
  • legacy-metabase - Shim for Metabase clients to write test reports
  • broker - Message broker for websocket messaging (for now, see https://github.com/cpan-testers/cpantesters-api/issues/21)
• Handles
  • Writing incoming test reports
  • Legacy Metabase API
• Hosted on
  • cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk (api-1.cpantesters.org)
  • cpantesters1.barnyard.co.uk (api-2.cpantesters.org)
  • cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk (api-3.cpantesters.org)

Backend

See beam list for a list of backend processes.

• Daemons
  • minion - Run backend processing jobs
• Handles
  • Processing test reports
• Hosted on
  • cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk

Web

In beta (http://beta.cpantesters.org).

Every web daemon is proxied via an Apache server running on the same machine.

• Daemons
  • web-beta - Run beta testing web app
• Handles
  • Future web app
  • Experiments in visualizations
• Hosted on
  • cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk (beta.cpantesters.org)

CPAN Mirror

A CPAN mirror holds modules for Perl users to install. CPAN Testers also uses this to build a database of CPAN uploads which is made available via the CPAN Testers API.

CPAN Testers is a tier-1 CPAN mirror, so we are expected to have a stable mirror.

• Daemons
  • rrr-client - Syncs CPAN modules from PAUSE intelligently via rsync files
  • apache - Document root: /home/cpan/CPAN
• Hosted on
  • cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk (cpan.cpantesters.org)

BackPAN Mirror

A BackPAN mirror holds all releases that have ever been released to CPAN, even ones that have been deleted from PAUSE.

• Daemons
  • apache - document root: /home/cpan/BACKPAN
• Processes
  • /home/cpan/bin/backend.sh
    • Run by cron as the cpan user
    • Log: /home/cpan/var/log/backpan.log
    • Lock: /home/cpan/var/run/backpan.lock
• Hosted on
  • cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk (backpan.cpantesters.org)

Rex

Read the documentation for the Rex tasks by using perldoc Rexfile. Install Rex using cpan Rex.

See all the objects inside the Rexfile by using rex -T. This helps you pick which groups (-g), environments (-E), hosts (-H), and tasks to use.

Restart services

• Restart all services on all machines: rex service
• Restart all API services: rex -g api service
• Show the status of all services: rex service --command=status
• Restart only minion and broker services: rex service --services=minion,broker
• Force restart if the restart fails: rex service --force=1

Monitors

The system is monitored on http://status.cpantesters.org. Users in CPAN Testers Github Org can log in to Grafana at http://status.cpantesters.org/grafana.

Reports Dashboard

This dashboard shows if report processing jobs are being added and finished. Report processing jobs are added when a new test report is written. Report processing jobs are finished by the minion daemon on Backend servers.

• Diagnostics
  • If report jobs are not being added, try restarting the legacy-metabase daemon.
  • If report jobs are not being finished, try restarting the minion daemon.

Web/DB Dashboard

This dashboard shows the response times for all the web applications, and the amount of work the MySQL database is doing.