DevOps & incidents checklist templates
Operational runbooks for incidents, maintenance, patching, backups and infrastructure changes.
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Disaster Recovery Test Checklist
A disaster recovery checklist for testing your DR plan: scope, failover or rebuild, RTO and RPO measurement, failback and follow-ups. Run it every quarter.
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Incident Postmortem Checklist
A blameless postmortem template as a checklist: timeline, impact, contributing factors, action items and follow-through. Start it when an incident closes.
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Incident Response Checklist
An incident response checklist for small IT and ops teams: declare, assign roles, mitigate, communicate and hand over cleanly. Start it from your alerting.
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Server Maintenance Checklist
A monthly server maintenance checklist for Linux and Windows: disk, logs, backups, certificates, accounts and monitoring. Schedule it and keep a record.
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Server Migration Checklist
A server migration checklist and plan template: inventory, rehearsal, data sync, cutover and decommission steps for moving a server or app to new hosting.
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Server Patching Checklist
A patch management checklist for monthly server patching on Linux and Windows: triage, snapshots, staged rollout, reboots, verification and reporting.
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Backup Restore Test Checklist
A backup checklist for real restore tests: pick a sample, restore it in isolation, verify the data, record timings and fix gaps. Schedule it every month.
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Linux Server Hardening Checklist
A Linux server hardening checklist for Ubuntu, Debian and RHEL-family hosts: SSH, users, firewall, updates, services, logging and backups before going live.
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On-Call Handover Checklist
An on-call handover checklist for DevOps and SRE shifts: open incidents, noisy alerts, risky changes, access and paging checks, so nothing gets lost in the gap.
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Outage Communication Checklist
An outage communication template as a checklist: who to tell, status page updates, update rhythm, customer emails and the final summary during an incident.
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Production Readiness Review Checklist
A production readiness checklist for launching a new service: ownership, monitoring, alerts, capacity, security, backups and runbooks, reviewed before launch.
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DNS Migration Checklist
A DNS migration checklist for moving DNS providers: export every record, rebuild the zone, compare answers, lower TTLs, switch nameservers and handle DNSSEC.
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Monthly Cloud Cost Review Checklist
A cloud cost optimization checklist for a monthly AWS, Azure or GCP review: spot anomalies, remove waste, rightsize, check commitments and assign owners.
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SSL/TLS Certificate Renewal Checklist
An SSL certificate renewal checklist: find every copy, renew with the right SANs, deploy the full chain, verify from outside and set expiry alerts in time.
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