Chat
From Fixme.ch
Contents
Description
- https://chat.fixme.ch
- Chatting at fixme, using a slack-like application
Goal
- Initial goal was to get out of slack
- The other goal is to have a userfriendly chat, better than IRC (which still have its use cases of course)
Component
- Mattermost: http://www.mattermost.org/
- Bot: https://hubot.github.com/
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Hosted on an Openstack cloud instance - Hosted in Bellatrix on Kubernetes
Upgrade
Current
Work in progress
ssh ubunut@k8s.fixme.ch # Backup ubuntu@k8s:~$ rsync -av /srv/chat.fixme.ch/ /root/backup-chat-$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')/ # Upgrade ubuntu@k8s:~$ kubectl -n mattermost edit deployment.apps/mattermost-app # Update the image tag to be to the last version (not latest!), ex: # image: mattermost/mattermost-prod-app:5.8.0 # image: mattermost/mattermost-prod-app:5.9.8 # save/quit # Watch the pods being restarted ubuntu@k8s:~$ kubectl get pods -n mattermost -w NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE mattermost-app-b68b5cdb-5jlhj 1/1 Running 5 308d postgresql-db-59ffdffd84-klkw2 1/1 Running 4 466d
Old
- This is outdated since we migrated to Kubernetes
# ssh root@chat.fixme.ch
systemctl stop mattermost
autopostgresqlbackup
ls -l /var/lib/autopostgresqlbackup/daily/mattermost/
su - chat
# Get the TEAM edition (not the enterprise version)
# VERSION from http://about.mattermost.com/download/
cd mattermost
VERSION=3.6.2
OLDVERSION=$(/home/chat/mattermost/bin/platform version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}')
cd
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/$VERSION/mattermost-team-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv mattermost mattermost-$OLDVERSION
tar xvf mattermost-team-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz
rsync -a ./mattermost-$OLDVERSION/config/ ./mattermost/config/
exit
setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /home/chat/mattermost/bin/platform
systemctl start mattermost
tail -F /home/chat/mattermost/logs/mattermost.log
Channel naming convention
- 10_* = general/association
- 20_* = events
- 30_* = projects/topics
- 40_* = other
- 99_* = archived channels
