Maintenance anti-patterns

This section describes processes and procedures that you should not do. While the items described here are generally not best, or even good, practices, there may be times when performing such tasks is required. They are provided here for your edification.

Mixing prod and non-prod

DON'T INSTALL PROD WITH NON-PROD IN THE SAME PLANET

Backups and repairs

Disable apigee-monit before running any backups or repairs

Don't run backups when repairs are running

Tokens

Don't create long-lived refresh tokens and short lived access tokens associated with the long lived refresh tokens (we don't have a solution for OPDK yet for CPS)

See /api-platform/system-administration/auth-tools

Data Center downtime

If you plan downtime on the network between data centers, disable jobs like repairs and backups