Work Week (Mon-Fri) 11/08/25 - 15/08/25

Total Hours 31.83

Projects:
1. DevOps:
Project: Duve: Security Hardening – Link Ongoing

Due Date Estimated Effort Invested Effort Progress (Number of done Tasks)
Next 90 60.72 23
Milestone -
20/08/25

TASK - Jenkins User Access: Remove the manually created users -> 1 hrs Link
 Removed the admin access and Reconfigured the user access to start/cancel the jenkins job build
TASK - Analyse setting up groups on Jenkins for users -> 2 hrs Link
 Checked on using the SSO setup along with groups on jenkins
 Analysed the role based strategy instead of the current project based matrix strategy
 Setup the plugin and created the new roles (admin, readonly, developer, developer with extended
read, developers with action tasks privileges)
 Assigned the roles to the sso users manually and verified the working of the setup

Maintenance and R&D – Done

TASK - EKS Version upgrade to v1.33 -> 1.98 hrs Link
 Upgraded the Control Plane to version 1.33
 Updated the required Add ons
 Updated the NodeGroup and rolled out the new nodes
TASK - Uptime Kuma Migration to Argocd Applications in Production environment -> 3.1 hrs Link
 Backed up the kuma.db using sqlite backup command
 Created the new PV and PVC manually for the argocd application
 Setup argocd application with custom overrides alonside helm deployment
 Created the zip file for the database in the old PVC and moved the data to the new PVC
 Troubleshoot the DB corruption issues
 Verified the working of the argocd application and Enabled the ingress and overide the new hostname
on argocd app
TASK - Cleanup Unused Resources -> 0.75 hrs Link
 Listed out the web ACL's that can be cleaned up
 Cleanup Unused web ACL's in WAF
TASK - Setup Latest Valkey cluster for testing in staging environment -> 2.8 hrs Link
 Created a new valkey cluster with latest version and same configuration as that of redis
 Cleaned up the older redis cluster and updated the endpoint on uptime kuma
 Created an activity plan document for replacing the redic cluster with the valkey elasticache cluster
 Setup and activity and updated the secrets in AWS Secret Manager
 Restarted the services after updating the secrets and verified the services are running
 Executed the e2e tests on jenkins to verify if there are any issues encounterd
TASK - GitHub Migration from BitBucket EPIC and Timeline -> 1 hrs Link
 Created the EPIC for the Migration project
TASK - Automation for stopping SandBox environment at night -> 2.55 hrs Link
 Worked on adding the all the deployments in the jenkins job to stop the sandbox environment
 Updated all the stateful sets and deployments in the stop node jenkins job
 Added all the stateful sets and deployments to the desired/current replicas for start node jenkins job
 Setup the cron jobs for the Israel timezone based on the available timezones in EC2 instance
 Checked and fixed the issue with the failures of the jenkins jobs for stop/start
TASK - MongoDB version 8 preparation -> 2.5 hrs Link
 Created the new AMI for mongo 7.0.4 and created a new instance from the AMI with the required
custom params
 Removed the mongo7.0.4 and installed mongo 8.0.12
 Updated the service file to use the custom config file for mongodb and updated the job names for logs
and metrics forwarded on grafana using alloy
 Encountered issues with service failures while using custom config file
 Re-Verified the permissions and ownership of the data, db and logs directories
TASK - Check with Dev Team on External Availability of Grafana and Jenkins -> 0.17 hrs Link
 Checked with Alon and Martin regarding the external access to the grafana and jenkins without using
VPN
TASK - Prod Elasticache ValKey Migration -> 0.5 hrs Link
 Created an Activity Document for replacing the cluster in Production environment
 Updated the elasticache endpoints on redis-insights and removed the older ones
TASK - Change VantaOwner tags in all buckets -> 1 hrs Link
 Checked and listed out the buckets with the old VantaOwner tags
 Created a script and updated the VantaOwner tags for all buckets
TASK - Cleanup CloudFront on AWS -> 0.5 hrs Link
 Created a script to check the requests on the cloudfront's in last 60 days
 Listed out the Cloudfront Distributions which are disabled or have no requests
TASK - Mongo Prod v8 Migration -> 4.3 hrs Link
 Created the document to setting up the mongo 8.0.12
 Setup a new instance with mongo v8.0.12 along with Alloy and Gonit
 Created the AMI from the updated instance and launched the new production instance for one
Availability Zone and set it up
 Verified all the requirements and shared the Instance details
 Created the Grafana Dashboard and Alerts for monitoring the instance
 Cleaned up the AMI Instance and the associated EBS volumes
TASK - Update existing Jenkins Plugins and Install Role Based Authentication Plugin -> 0.6 hrs Link
 Created an AMI for current jenkins instance and Updated the plugins, pending restart
 Restarted the service and verified the updation of the plugins
TASK - Jenkins Job for RACR Action -> 1 hrs Link
 Create a new Jenkins Job in staging environment for racr action with a cron job
 Create a new Jenkins Job in production environment for racr action with a cron job
 Provided access to amit to edit the jenkins job for racr action for modifying the cron expressions
TASK - Troubleshoot Issues: Jenkins and VPN -> 0.95 hrs Link
 Troubleshoot the SSO issues encountered by team
 Updated the Entity ID and the SSO URL along with the certificate and resolved the issue
 Created a new Admin user for jenkins
 Connected with Chirag Ranpara regarding the n8n access after connecting to VPN
TASK - Rollback the Elasticache to Redis in Sandbox Environment -> 0.4 hrs Link
 Updated the secrets in the secret manager for sandbox environment
 Restarted all the services and verified the endpoints in the pods for each service
Planned Tasks for the Next Week:

DevOps:
 Migrate Jenkins Jobs to Github: Setup the repository and create jenkins file for the jobs
 CloudTrail Bucket all read operations, And Different Storage class and cleanup practice
 Prod Elasticache ValKey Migration
 GitHub Migration Documentation: Requirement Analysis, MoP, Case Study and activity
 GhostScript in Clamav Image

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