How to start and activate Rancher environment

Target Jenkins pipeline: Link

Aim: Spin up automatically scaled down Rancher environment

Epilogue: *** Starting from 24 Oct 2024  All Rancher environments will be excluded from auto start action inside "managePods" pipeline i.e. to make environment up & running manual interaction is a MUST. 

INFO:

• Scaling down schedule: Link

• Time zone: UTC i.e. all schedules are in UTC time zone

How to start Rancher environment:

P.S. ***IGNORE ALL OF THE REST PARAMETERS***

EXAMPLE OF STARTING SAMPLE RANCHER ENVIRONMENT:

• Select all 3 required parameters
• Click on "BUILD" button at the bottom of Jenkins pipeline page
• Wait until job execution is complete

How to monitor job status:

• Review Console Output

If Green Checkmark appeared, then pipeline execution successfully complete.

Check, Verify & Validate target environment.

Information, how to construct environment URLs, please visit this page: Link

In case of any issue, please report via Slack Channel.

How to exclude environment from auto shutdown list:

(CAUTION: THIS IS ONE TIME OPERATION, SETTINGS ARE NOT PERMENANT, i.e. if target date passed, on the next cycle environment will be automatically included into the list)

P.S. ***IGNORE ALL OF THE REST PARAMETERS***

PERIOD:

parameter defines for how long target environment will be excluded from auto shutdown process, possible values: night (upcoming i.e. DO NOT shutdown tonight), weekend (upcoming i.e. DO NOT shutdown on this weekend)

EXAMPLE of parameters selection to suspend auto shutdown for tonight:

• select all required 4 parameters
• click on "BUILD" button at the bottom of Jenkins pipeline page
• wait until job execution is complete

Direct Link on Rancher UI