Operations

At this point, you have successfully deployed the CoCalc-Cloud service. This part is about how to operate and scale it.

Prerequisites

• All this assumes you are familiar with HELM Charts, Kubernetes and know your way around with YAML.

• Some abbreviations used to talk to Kubernetes come from Kubectl Aliases.

• The /ops directory has an activate.sh script, which you can copy, adjust to your needs, and source.

• It’s highly recommended to read about the Architecture first, in order to get an understanding which part is responsible for what.

Table of Contents

• Versions: release notes, available Docker images, their deprecations, etc.

• Admin: overview what admins can do, how to create more admins, etc.

• Updating: make sure to update regularly, to get new features and bugfixes

• Language Models: notes about Large Language Models.

• Scaling: expands on how to scale proportional to the number of projects and users, etc.

• Software Environment: how to change the software environment of the project pods

• Resource Management: managing resources in your cluster by e.g. modifying the resource limits of project pods

• Patching Projects: how to patch project pods

• Monitoring: how to monitor the system

• Backup and Restore: notes about backup and restore

• Troubleshooting: common problems and how to solve them

• Tips and tricks: some tips and tricks