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Retry renewal of SSL certificates #338

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jdno opened this issue Aug 7, 2023 · 1 comment
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Retry renewal of SSL certificates #338

jdno opened this issue Aug 7, 2023 · 1 comment

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@jdno
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jdno commented Aug 7, 2023

The renew-ssl-certs.service fails periodically, which triggers the following alert in Grafana:

The systemd unit renew-ssl-certs.service on the <server>:9100 instance failed to execute.

The fix for this alert is to restart the service manually:

sudo systemctl restart renew-ssl-certs.service

We should investigate the reason why the service fails in the first place and retry automatically.

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Relevant logs:

May 23 00:00:01 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org systemd[1]: Starting Renew SSL certificates...
May 23 00:00:03 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org renew-ssl-certs[2866]: 2022/05/23 00:00:03 [INFO] [grafana.rust-lang.org] acme: Trying renewal with 647 hours remaining
May 23 00:00:03 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org renew-ssl-certs[2866]: 2022/05/23 00:00:03 [INFO] [grafana.rust-lang.org] acme: Obtaining bundled SAN certificate
May 23 00:00:09 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org renew-ssl-certs[2866]: 2022/05/23 00:00:09 acme: error: 500 :: POST :: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-order :: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:serverInternal :: Error creating new order, url:
May 23 00:00:09 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org systemd[1]: renew-ssl-certs.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 23 00:00:09 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org systemd[1]: renew-ssl-certs.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 23 00:00:09 monitoring.infra.rust-lang.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Renew SSL certificates.

My guess is this is an upstream spurious failure of some kind -- presumably one-off and resolvable by retrying. Let's Encrypt doesn't note any problems on their status page at this time:

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So my best guess is low levels of fuzz in their availability; we likely can fix this by retrying on our side at the systemd layer or within the executed script.

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