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[Runbook] Create comprehensive operational runbooks #11

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@OneByJorah

Runbook Gap

Current Issues:

  1. No operational runbooks - Only minimal MAINTENANCE.md (19 lines)
  2. No incident response procedures - No runbooks for common failure scenarios
  3. No backup/restore procedures - Only one-line tar command in MAINTENANCE.md
  4. No disaster recovery plan - No RTO/RPO defined
  5. No capacity planning - No scaling guidelines
  6. No on-call procedures - No escalation paths
  7. No deployment runbook - Deploy is automated but no manual fallback
  8. No security incident runbook - No breach response
  9. No service-specific runbooks - Each service needs its own ops guide

Required Runbooks:

  1. Bootstrap/Deployment Runbook

    • Fresh server setup
    • Production deployment
    • Rollback procedures
    • Blue-green deployment
  2. Service Operations Runbooks (one per service)

    • SearXNG: reindex, update instances, debug search quality
    • Camofox: browser restart, session cleanup, resource tuning
    • Honcho: migration, backup, token rotation, LLM provider switching
    • Qdrant: snapshot, restore, collection management
    • Obsidian: vault backup, plugin management, permission fixes
    • Portainer: backup/restore, RBAC management
  3. Incident Response Runbooks

    • Service down troubleshooting
    • High memory/CPU investigation
    • Disk space exhaustion
    • Network connectivity issues
    • Database corruption recovery
    • Secret compromise response
  4. Maintenance Runbooks

    • Scheduled maintenance windows
    • Base image updates
    • Security patching
    • Certificate renewal (if TLS added)
    • Log rotation
    • Backup verification
  5. Disaster Recovery Runbook

    • RTO: 4 hours, RPO: 1 hour (define targets)
    • Full stack restore from backup
    • Partial service restore
    • Cross-region failover (if applicable)
  6. Security Runbook

    • Vulnerability patching
    • Secret rotation
    • Access review
    • Audit logging review

Format:

  • Markdown with clear steps
  • Prerequisites
  • Expected outcomes
  • Rollback steps
  • Contact/escalation info
  • Runbook testing schedule

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