Operational Best Practices

  1. Pre-Deployment Checks
    • Always verify required datasources/clusters exist before deploying configurations
    • Run configuration commands as part of deployment validation
    • Document required infrastructure in deployment runbooks
  2. Regular Infrastructure Audits
    crontab -e
  3. Error Handling in Scripts
    # Always check exit codes
       if ! ./CliTool.sh get-all-kafka-cluster-names > /prod/null 2>&1; then
           echo "Failed to retrieve Kafka clusters" >&2
           # Send alert, create incident ticket, etc.
           exit 1
       fi
  4. Timeout Configuration
    • Set appropriate timeouts based on network latency
    • For slow networks or high-latency environments:
      cli.connectionTimeoutMillis=90000
           cli.socketTimeoutMillis=90000