Operations

Use this page for day-to-day operations on a Kubernetes (Helm) deployment.

Common operations

Stop (scale down)

This stops the UI/API pods without uninstalling Helm releases.

kubectl scale deployment/frontend -n syntho --replicas=0
kubectl scale deployment/backend -n syntho --replicas=0
kubectl scale deployment/core -n syntho --replicas=0

Scaling down interrupts running jobs. Stop workloads first.

Start (scale up)

Scale back to your desired replica counts:

kubectl scale deployment/frontend -n syntho --replicas=<n>
kubectl scale deployment/backend -n syntho --replicas=<n>
kubectl scale deployment/core -n syntho --replicas=<n>

Check rollout status

kubectl rollout status deployment/frontend -n syntho
kubectl rollout status deployment/backend -n syntho
kubectl rollout status deployment/core -n syntho

Restart pods

kubectl rollout restart deployment/frontend -n syntho
kubectl rollout restart deployment/backend -n syntho
kubectl rollout restart deployment/core -n syntho

Check pods

kubectl get pods -n syntho -o wide

Logs

Follow logs

kubectl logs -n syntho -f <pod-name>

Save logs

kubectl -n syntho logs deployment/core >> core.log
kubectl -n syntho logs deployment/backend >> backend.log

Log sharing

Logs can contain hostnames, workspace names, and operational details.

Share logs only via approved internal channels or directly with Syntho Support.