Service Decommissioning Checlist

Purpose

This checklist is to ensure that all aspects of an active service are decommissioned properly to prevent potential failures elsewhere in the system.

Steps

• Determine which monitoring systems need to be disabled, permanently and temporarily to prevent service outage notifications
• If this service has a MariaDB, PostgreSQL or otherwise database, remove its entry from the nixOS config to prevent backup failure
• If this service is running in a Docker container, tear down its compose project. Otherwise stop the service and disable/remove its nixOS config. Push configuration change to staging branch

  • Do not push this change to main until testing that the configuration builds successfully

• If this service is a docker-compose project, move its folder to ~/Containers/.retired-services
• If this service is publicly exposed with a TLS cert, remove its entry from traefik's acme.json file to prevent unwanted cert renewals
• If remaining data is unwanted, clear all relevant files from the filesystem i.e. /srv/<servicename> and from any relevant databases
• Push changes fromstaging to main 
• If any related monitoring systems were temporarily put into maintenance mode, re-enable them in Uptime Kuma and Healthchecks