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+/title Recycle old bare metal server(s) into a rancher node for <project>
+
+/labels ~"activity::Deployment"
+
+Orders: <link to the mybox directory containing the order/delivery orders/...>
+
+Inventory: <link to the inventory page>
+
+Environment: admin|production|staging|test-staging
+
+Summary:
+- Management address (DNS): XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (abcd.inria.fr)
+- VLAN configuration: VLANXXXX/VLANXXX
+- Management Port:
+- Access Ports:
+- Internal IP(s): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
+- Internal DNS name(s): xxx.internal.(softwareheritage.org|`<environment>`.swh.network
+
+Tasks:
+- [ ] Decommission `old-fqdn` on pergamon
+- [ ] Remove `<old-fqdn>.yaml` from the puppet repository
+- [ ] Update the node's information in the inventory
+- [ ] Create `<new-fqdn>.yaml` in the puppet repository
+- [ ] Reinstall Debian bullseye with IPXE
+- [ ] Register the new node in the cluster `<target-environment-cluster>`
+- [ ] Create the required kubernetes labels (e.g. swh/journal_client=true, ...)
+- [ ] Create a swap at least the size of the machine's memory
+- [ ] Update firewall rules with the new machine's ip (e.g. swh_$environment_kube_workers, ...)
+- [ ] (other actions if needed, drop unneeded actions)
+