Admins responsibility

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Hosty establishes clear distinctions regarding responsibilities between developers and administrators to ensure that applications remain stable, secure, and operational.

Administrators responsibility

  • Operational hosting infrastructure: load balancer (ALB), kubernetes cluster (EKS), database (RDS), file system (EFS).
  • Regular backups for database and user uploaded content (file assets).
  • Auto-renewable SSL certificates for project domains.
  • Working and stable VPN connection to the cluster.
  • Proactive infrastructure incidents monitoring and resolution.
  • Providing sufficient storage and computing resources to accommodate all projects with their production and development environments.
  • Ensuring scalability of computing resources in case of load increase for one or several projects.
  • Timely notification of developers in case of planned hosting maintenance.
  • Logging and logs retention sufficient to debug issues and trace incidents. It includes logs for:
    • Project applications
    • Access to backups storage
    • Load balancer
    • Kubernetes events
    • Database events
    • VPN connections
    • Incident alarms
    • User actions on the hosting
  • Security updates for Hosty tools and services:
    • Kubernetes
    • Helm
    • Terraform (Open Tofu)
    • Database
  • Security updates for Operating Systems (OS) of:
    • EC2 instances running production and development workloads
    • Docker images used inside of the Kubernetes cluster. It includes both web server Docker images and system Docker images required for hosting operations.
  • Providing developers with the following:
    • User accounts created on the Hosty, with credentials to log into the AWS Console
    • Individual VPN connection configuration for each user account