Debug snapshotΒΆ

To simplify communication interface between production and development, Decapod has a concept of debug snapshot, similar to Fuel snapshots: snapshot is an archive which contains all information, required to debug and troubleshoot problems.

To generate snapshot, just execute following:

$ ./scripts/debug_snapshot.py snapshot

or, if you have containers only:

$ docker-compose exec -T admin cat /debug-snapshot | python - snapshot

If you use last way, please check docs and set correct settings if required:

$ docker-compose -p myproject exec -T admin cat /debug-snapshot | python - --help
usage: - [-h] [-f COMPOSE_FILE] [-p PROJECT_NAME] snapshot_path

Create debug snapshot for Decapod.

positional arguments:
  snapshot_path         Path where to store snapshot (do not append extension,
                        we will do it for you).

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f COMPOSE_FILE, --compose-file COMPOSE_FILE
                        path to docker-compose.yml file. (default:
                        /vagrant/docker-compose.yml)
  -p PROJECT_NAME, --project-name PROJECT_NAME
                        the name of the project. (default: vagrant)

Please find all logs in syslog by ident 'decapod-debug-snapshot'.

$ docker-compose -p myproject exec -T admin cat /debug-snapshot | python - -p myproject snapshot

After execution, you will get snapshot as snapshot_path.* (snapshot tool will calculate best compression algorithm available on your platform and use its extension. So you may get snapshot_path.tar.bz2 or snapshot_path.tar.xz depepnding on how your Python was built).

Information, stored in the snapshot:

  • Backup of the database
  • Logs from services
  • docker-compose.yml file
  • Configuration files from Decapod services (config.yaml)
  • Datetimes from services
  • Data from ceph-monitoring
  • Version of installed packages
  • Git commit SHAs of Decapod itself
  • Information about docker and containers

No ansible private keys or user passwords (they are hashed by Argon2) are stored in debug snapshot.