Back from the engine room. Everything is up to date on our Mastodon instance:

Mastodon  : 4.5.0-rc.3
Ruby: 3.4.7
PostgreSQL  : 18.0
Redis: 8.0.2
Elasticsearch: 7.17.29

Also all operating system updates deployed and re-organized the PostgreSQL database with a pg_repack.

Few technical stats:
Database size: 22,1 GB
Media size (S3 Storage): 142 GB
Elasticsearch size: ~ 10 GB

All looking pretty healthy, stable, realiable. Running like a well oiled machine 🙂

#mastodon #maintanance #mastoadmin #postgresql
@tux

Now running Mastodon v4.5-beta1 on our instance burningboard.net. This release allows for example to quote toots.

Also updated Ruby to version 3.4.7 🙂

All looking perfectly stable from the engine room !

#mastodon #mastoadmin #maintanance #update #ruby @tux

Update of Mastodon to v4.4.6 for our Instance burningboard.net was done successfully. We're on the latest version again.

Mastodon 4.4.6  
PostgreSQL 18  
Debian GNU/Linux 13  

#mastodon #mastoadmin #updates #maintanance #up2date #burningboard

Mastodon update to v4.4.4 on burningboard.net has been installed  

#mastodon #mastoadmin #maintanance #up2date #burningboard

Homelab Maintanance 2025-06-29:

- Upgraded Red Hat Satellite to version 6.17.1

- Upgraded Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 (RPM) to 2.4-12

- Upgraded Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 (Containerized) to 2.5-15

- Patched Proxmox hypervisors to latest version

- Patched all Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts to latest version and applied all errata

- Decomissioned CentOS-Stream9 host on Hetzner Cloud and removed CentOS Packages from local mirror

- Upgraded check_mk monitoring suite and rolled out new check_mk agent via Ansible

- Renewed expired TLS certificates from internal step-ca

- Fixed issue in LDAP directory of Red Hat Identity Management realm

- Overall environment health-check

All green, all up to date, all fine 🙂

#homelab #selfhosting #linux #redhat #proxmox #maintanance #devops

And another successful round of home- and colo-lab maintainance:

- Updated Proxmox VE servers to v.8.3.4
- Updated Proxmox backup server to v.3.3.3
- Updated all Debian/GNU Linux servers (including the
burningboard.net Mastodon instance) with the latest patches and rebooted them
- Updated Red Hat Satellite to version 6.16.3 on RHEL9
- Updated all Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS-Stream systems with Satellite+Ansible and rebooted them
- Updated my Raspberry PI 4 with Home-Assustant to the latest version 2025.3.1

According to Grafana+Loki dashboards and checkmk, everything is running smoothly and is operational :)

Thanks to the power of automation with Ansible, all of this just took roughly 25 minutes to do.

#linux #sysadmin #homelab #selfhosting #maintanance #security #ansible

mastodon.social has incurred problems & is experiencing major outage.

PostgreSQL new major version running on new server hardware went awry.

There is a config issue with the upgrade.

Please just be patient and dont ask when the instance will be up again. Let the computer & server technicians work in calm so they can fix or roll back; either will result in the instance coming up again

#maintanance #mastodonSocial #dBase #PostgresQL #issues #Linux #SocialMedia

https://status.mastodon.social/