Standard Operating Procedures

This section contains all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for DevOps operations.

Available SOPs

Infrastructure

• Backup & Recovery SOP — Data protection and disaster recovery
• Monitoring SOP — Infrastructure and application monitoring
• DNS Management SOP — DNS records, Cloudflare, DNSSEC
• Patch Management SOP — Scheduled updates, kernel upgrades, reboot cycles
• Disaster Recovery SOP — DR plan, RTO/RPO, failover drills

Development

• Git Workflow SOP — Branching, commits, code review process
• CI/CD Pipeline SOP — Automated testing and deployment pipelines
• CI/CD Multi-Environment SOP — Dev/staging/prod deployment strategy
• Release Management SOP — Versioning, changelogs, release notes

Application Deployment

• WordPress Deployment SOP — WordPress with Docker, Nginx, and MariaDB
• WordPress Domain Change SOP — Change WordPress site URL
• Laravel Deployment SOP — Laravel with Docker, Nginx, and MariaDB
• Python/WSGI Deployment SOP — Django/Flask with Gunicorn and Docker

Incidents

• Incident Postmortem SOP — Postmortem template and process

Migration

• Server Migration SOP — Full server and site migration process

SOP Template

Each SOP follows this structure:

1. Purpose — What this SOP covers
2. Scope — When to use this procedure
3. Prerequisites — Required access, tools, and permissions
4. Procedure — Step-by-step instructions
5. Rollback — How to revert if something goes wrong
6. Verification — How to confirm success