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bundle exec cap staging maintenance:enable REASON="a test of maintenance mode" UNTIL="12pm Eastern Time"

• Deploy as usual / desired
• Do anything else needed on the server that required the downtime

bundle exec cap staging maintenance:disable

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This design works because ansible looks for group_vars in a location relative to the inventory / hosts file you pass on the command line.

AWS - add new user

• IAM (identity & access management) > Users > Create New Users.
• Enter user name, uncheck 'generate an access key', create
• select newly-created username > 'permissions' tab > Attach policy (you can look at policies on other users if needed)
• 'security credentials' tab > 'assign an auto-generated password', check 'require user to create a new password at next sign-in'
• download the security credentials.
• (another option is to have the person stand right next to you and give themselves a temporary password)
• Stick the credentials somewhere safe!
• Get user to sign on and reset password.

General Notes

Notes from conversations with Alicia

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