Infrastructure/DevOps Resources

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In the past (and present) many questions have been asked about DevOps principles with regard to deploying nodes and networks of all kinds: validators, collators, testnets, mainnets…

I would like to share some resources here people may not know exist and would endeavor to keep this an active document - I will edit this post to add resources as they appear or are suggested to me and I feel they meet the standard that I would expect from DevOps best practices.

general overview guide on deployments, keys, and monitoring: Overview - Substrate Devops Guide

ansible-galaxy roles, which you can install and run with your own ansible setup: GitHub - paritytech/ansible-galaxy: Repo for paritytech ansible collections

testnet-manager, to manage fully managed k8s testnets: https://github.com/paritytech/testnet-manager

helm charts, a variety of charts we use to deploy nodes and other Polkadot-related resources: GitHub - paritytech/helm-charts: Parity Helm charts collection

If anyone has any questions about any of these resources, has resources to add or share, please comment here. Of course, if there are any specific issues you run into when trying to use any of these I would encourage you to open an issue in the corresponding issue tracker, and PRs are of course welcome! (:

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Hello, curious whether there are any other repos that one should be aware of 1,5 years later :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance, this is hugely helpful!

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Indeed, this is well worth an update!

We’ll soon be overhauling the devops guide, and finding it a new home at something other than a github pages URL. The updated guide should better reflect what parachain developers and teams are looking for, with tutorials and more parachain-focused information/configurations to help people with their deployments. I will post the update here when that happens!

Other than that, all the repos in the original post are still maintained - and actively developed - and the most recent addition is the powerful Rust CI tool forklift, which will be properly announced in a forum post very soon. Infrastructure at Parity do have a lot of things in the works, though, so watch this space!

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