¶ Create a server
¶ 💻 Create the server in Hetzner. 
Production and Testing
- Check if a project exists to add the new server to; otherwise, create a new project.
- For a default instance we use Ubuntu 24, shared CPU and type CPX21 with RAM 4GB and SSD 80GB.
Leave the rest of the configuration unchecked. - Use the domain as server name. As in this article is explained, use domain.devs.coop for production and domain-test.devs.coop for testing.
Add the SSH keys of SysAdmins (your key if you can run the sys_admin role) to give root access.
💻 💻 For a standard Odoo instance we have to create two servers, one for production and one for testing environment.
¶ 🪣 Create a bucket for the backups in B2. Production
- Create the bucket in B2.
- Save the credentials in BW with the following template name:
backblaze - <domain>
¶ 🌍 DNS configuration Production and Testing
- Add a DNS record pointing to the server IP following the instructions here.
¶ 🗂️ Configure the provisioning project Production and Testing
- Configure SysAdmin users.
- Configure app variables.
- Configure backups. Only for Production
- Configure certbot (Let’s Encrypt certificates).
- Configure monitoring NodeExporter and Postgres Exporter (in case of use PostgreSQL as DB) Only for Production
- Create the BasicAuth credentials
- Save it in BW with the template name:
<exporter> - <domain>Ex:NodeExporter - odoo.coopdevs.org
¶ 📈 Configure monitoring jobs Production
- In order to monitor the server add the production server domain to monitoring repository.
¶ Delete a server
- Remove the Prometheus job configuration related with this server.
- Archive the repository in Gitlab or publish an MR deleting the host configuration in the provisioning repository.
- Revoke the certificates:
$ sudo certbot certificates # To check the certificates
...
$ sudo certbot revoke --cert-path /etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain-name>/cert.pem --key-path /etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain-name>/privkey.pem --reason cessationOfOperation # Revocation reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list#Reasons_for_revocation
- Delete the server and the volumes attached to it in Hetzner. If the Hetzner project is empty, remove it as well as the corresponding line in the Odoo Hetzner provider contract.
- Remove the DNS record pointing to the server IP.
- Create an activity to remove the backups after 3 months.