Introduction

This operations guide documents relevant information of the administration and troubleshooting of the OTH platform, running on a customer owned and managed platform, either on stand-alone nodes (e.g. VM or discrete servers) or in a kubernetes cluster (Proof of concept only).

The guide is oriented towards IT Professionals with a solid technical understanding of subjects like (but not limited to) :

• Linux administration and security
  • MySQL/MariaDB
  • RabbitMQ
  • Container technologies (e.g. Docker,kubernetes)
  • Monitoring principles
  • Backup Strategies
  • Ansible
  • Object storage technologies such as AWS S3 or Minio
  • REST API
• Network administration, security and protocols
  • Firewall technologies. e.g. IPTABLES
  • Load-balancing technologies. e.g. HAProxy,Traefik
  • TLS/Certificates
  • SSH
  • DNS

All administrators intending to use and administrate the OTH platform are encouraged to read the entire guide before installing and operating the OTH platform.