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Add docs for deploying a new gitea server

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We have gitea state now so deploying a new server requires a bit of
process. Document that process.

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socat readline /var/haproxy/run/stats
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Deploy a New Backend
====================
Our gitea servers do maintain a small amount of state (they remember
repo rename redirects) so there is a small amount of process required
to deploy a new Gitea backend.
To deploy a new Gitea backend we add it to the ansible inventory, but
exclude it from the "Create repos on gitea servers" play in
remote_puppet_git.yaml playbook. This will full provision an empty
Gitea server with running Gitea and database processes. Then
we can manually restore the database from another node, create all of
the bare git repos, and replicate all of the repo content.
When these steps are done the new gitea backend can be added to the
haproxy config and its exclusion from "Create repos on gitea servers"
can be removed.
Restore the Gitea Database
--------------------------
The first step in restoring the database is to determine which container
is running the database::
docker ps -a
Make note of the container id for the container running the mariadb image.
Next we stop the gitea services::
docker stop $GITEA_CONTAINER_IDS
With services stopped and the container id captured we are ready to restore
the database. We use ``docker exec`` and not ``docker-compose exec`` for
performance reasons::
docker exec -i $DB_CONTAINER_ID bash -c '/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD"' < /root/gitea-mariadb.sql
When that is completed you can restart the docker containers that were
stopped::
# Check that containers are still stopped
docker ps -a
docker start $GITEA_CONTAINER_IDS
Create All Bare Git Repos
-------------------------
Gitea's admin dashboard includes a useful button to create all missing
git repos. At this point in the deployment we have recovered the DB
contents so Gitea knows there are missing repos and will happily create
empty replacements if we ask it to.
Login to Gitea as ``root`` via ``https://giteaXY.opendev.org:3000/user/login``.
The credentials can be found in hiera's group vars for the gitea group.
Navigate to ``https://giteaXY.opendev.org:3000/admin`` and click the run
button for ``Reinitialize all missing Git repositories for which records exist``.
Replicate Git Repo Content from Gerrit
--------------------------------------
First we must accept the RSA host key for the Gerrit server (not the
ecdsa key)::
gerrit2@review.opendev.org$ ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa -p222 git@giteaXY.opendev.org
Then we can ask Gerrit to replicate all repo content into our new empty repos::
ssh -p 29418 $USER@review.opendev.org replication start --url giteaXY.opendev.org