In this video, I'll share some best practices for running Lennox in the cloud.
Just like any os,
there are some steps you could take to make sure your experience and your
customers experience are good ones.
I've chosen 12 tips I and others have learned while running a cloud-based
workload on Lennox. The first one, keep it simple.
Do not overcomplicate your setup software is complicated enough. Two,
avoid unnecessary toil.
You should automate all you can so you have more time to work on things to bring
revenue or support your customers. Three A B u.
Always be updating.
Most of the security breaches happen because of outdated software.
Just patch your host regularly. Number four,
slim down your Lennox host as much as possible. Get rid of anything not needed.
For example, like X Windows or any other unused applications,
this will lower your security footprint. Five,
treat your Lennox host like a disposable commodity and not a pet.
A Lennox host should be able to be torn down and thrown away at any given time.
Six,
try to avoid giving production route level remote access to your Lennox host.
This one is self-explanatory. Number seven,
if you must access your Lennox host remotely,
use two FA to provide another layer of security.
There are PAM modules that can do this. Number eight,
add observability to your Lennox host from day one.
This should not be an afterthought and bolted on later when things are broken.
Nine,
perform regular backups to a cloud object store or an elastic storage
device. You'll thank yourself later. 10.
Use configuration management software like Ansible or Chef,
or you can use the cloud provider's built-in version of these tools as well.
Regardless of which you choose, keep your host consistent. 11,
use infrastructure's code like Terraform or whatever the cloud provider's
equivalent is.
Never create infrastructure by hand or use some throwaway bash scripts.
And finally, 12. Use Autoscaling functionality for your application workloads.
You should never have to get paid the middle of the night to scale up a
workload. Let the cloud provider do that for you. Okay,
so let's talk about what we did. In this video.
We discussed some best practices when operating Lennox in the cloud.
You learned about good habits like security backups, limiting access,
and day one observability. In the next video,
I'll share with you a Lennox command cheat sheet you can download and keep.