praefect

Overview ¶

Command praefect provides a reverse-proxy server with high-availability specific features for Gitaly.

Additionally, praefect has subcommands for common tasks:

SQL Ping ¶

The subcommand "sql-ping" checks if the database configured in the config file is reachable:

praefect -config PATH_TO_CONFIG sql-ping

SQL Migrate ¶

The subcommand "sql-migrate" will apply any outstanding SQL migrations.

praefect -config PATH_TO_CONFIG sql-migrate

Dial Nodes ¶

The subcommand "dial-nodes" helps diagnose connection problems to Gitaly or Praefect. The subcommand works by sourcing the connection information from the config file, and then dialing and health checking the remote nodes.

praefect -config PATH_TO_CONFIG dial-nodes