OpsGuide/HDWMY

Here’s a quick list of various to-do items for each hour, day, week, month, and year. Please note that these tasks are neither required nor definitive but helpful ideas:

Hourly

 * Check your monitoring system for alerts and act on them.
 * Check your ticket queue for new tickets.

Daily

 * Check for instances in a failed or weird state and investigate why.
 * Check for security patches and apply them as needed.

Weekly

 * Check cloud usage:
 * User quotas
 * Disk space
 * Image usage
 * Large instances
 * Network usage (bandwidth and IP usage)
 * Verify your alert mechanisms are still working.

Monthly

 * Check usage and trends over the past month.
 * Check for user accounts that should be removed.
 * Check for operator accounts that should be removed.

Quarterly

 * Review usage and trends over the past quarter.
 * Prepare any quarterly reports on usage and statistics.
 * Review and plan any necessary cloud additions.
 * Review and plan any major OpenStack upgrades.

Semiannually

 * Upgrade OpenStack.
 * Clean up after an OpenStack upgrade (any unused or new services to be aware of?).