RDS Notes
Upgrading RDS Minor Version
According to AWS support, the auto minor version upgrade feature will only upgrade your RDS instance when AWS has fully vetted the new minor version. They will not provide an ETA when this will happen. If you need to upgrade the RDS instance before AWS has fully vetted you can do that.
- stop service of webapp that connects to RDS
- take snapshot of RDS rds-pre-upgrade-backup-12-7
- modify the RDS to set the desired version
- start service of webapp
- update the TF state with this:
terragrunt apply -refresh-only
Upgrading RDS Major Version
When upgrading the Major version of postgres, additional care needs to be taken with the parameter group. The version needs to be updated in the TF code. You can upgrade postgres in the AWS console and then reapply via the TF after the upgrade. This will swap out the parameter group and keep TF happy. might also need to run terragrunt apply -refresh-only
Moving to Encrypted RDS
Migrating the jira rds.
Install the terraform without termination protection.
cd ~/xdr-terraform-live/test/aws/legacy-mdr-test/210-rds-jira
TF_VAR_instance_termination_protection=false terragrunt-local apply
Record the output as you'll need it in the next group.
Then in the console:
- Go to the proper account, rds, databases.
- Select the new database, and select 'Actions->Delete'
- Create a final snapshot, just in case you're a fool and deleting the wrong one. Put a date in the name.
- Announce start of jira downtime
- stop jira
- Select the production database and choose actions->take snapshot
- Give it an identifier like
jira-migration-source-<date>
- Once created, select it and choose 'actions->copy snapshot'
- Give it an identifier like 'jira-migration-dest-'
- Check 'copy tags'
- Check 'enable encryption'
- For the master key, choose "Enter a key ARN"
- Paste the arn from terraform
- Select the new snapshot (
migration-dest
), and choose actions->upgrade snapshot
- For new engine version, choose "11.8" (latest supported by jira)
- wait for update to complete (this will take some time)
- Choose actions->restore snapshot:
- identifier: choose the same name of the instance you removed (e.g.
jira2
)
- VPC: The VPC ID from the terraform
- Subnet Group: subnet group from the terraform
- VPC Security Groups: Remove 'default', add the output from the terraform (e.g.
jira2_rds_sg
)
- Instance type: Burtable class, Type from terraform output
- Storage type: SSD
- Allocated Storage: output from terraform
- Multi-AZ: "Do not create a standby instance"k
- Database Authentication: Password Authentication
- Additional Configuration
- DB Parameter Group: jira2-...
- Copy tags to snapshot checked (default)
- Check the export logs
- Click 'restore db'
- Wait for database to enter 'Available'
- CLick on the database, select Configuration, and copy the ARN
arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:527700175026:db:jira2
Rerun the terraform. It should result in 1 to change
, and 0 to add or destroy.
Update the dbconnection in jira:
ssh prod-jira-server
sudo bash
cd /opt/jira-data/jira/
cp dbconfig.xml dbconfig.xml.20210129
# change the url with the output of `database_url` from terraform
# Do _not_ change the database-type. postgres72 is correct for versions >= 7.2
systemd start jira
Test!