Administration

This section is dedicated to the RS-Python administrators. It assumes a good knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Terraform and Keycloak.

The administrators are present during the whole project lifetime, not only during the development phase. Their tasks are:

Task	Documentation
Deploy the platform from scratch: Kubernetes cluster, infrastructure, monitoring, virtual environment, RS-Python services and flows.	Deploy RS-Python
Modify the configuration of a running platform.	Update infrastructure parameters, Update rs-server parameters
Add users, assign and synchronise their rights.	Create accounts and assign permissions
Initialise the processing environment of a user group after the deployment: Prefect blocks and variables, Dask clusters, default flows.	Initialise the processing environment
Monitor the platform: logs, metrics, traces, resources and costs, to troubleshoot errors and bad performances.	Monitoring and observability, Object storage quota monitoring, Performance indicators
Operate the cluster: start and stop, backup and restore, credentials...	Operations how-to pages of the navigation menu, from rs-infra-core
Support the users who face difficulties.	Troubleshooting

The operators use a subset of these tools, mainly the monitoring ones, to check the health of the system and the completeness and timeliness of the production.

Administration use cases

The deployment use cases are described in Deploy RS-Python.