Keep up the stellar work florian :) Wish i had more time at this point to contribute but hopefully come the virtualization phase i can contribute alot more as I have a fair bit of experience in that realm.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Florian Effenberger < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to share the current infra status quo with you. Sorry for being > so silent the last weeks. It was really urgent to get some stuff done, so I > first wanted to create some results before talking. ;-) > > I spent quite some time now with updating our existing configuration. > Goals were: > > - bring it from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 > - make it scriptable (poor man's deployment), as preparation for a real > deployment solution > - include some wishlist items and fix some bugs, plus enhance security > > Right now, I achieved all of this with the base system plus the Postfix > setup, including spam and virus filtering. To move out of theory, I have > now updated all running VMs with this up to date configuration, so they are > now in a stable and sane state. Let's better not talk about what was > before, all of that was set up in a rush... ;-) Productive machines > benefitting from this change are AskBot and Gerrit, plus some testing > machines. > > Next step is to move forward with the above steps for the web server > configuration, apply that to the virtual machines, and then start migrating > kermit, our web server, to our shiny new hardware, since all we need is the > documentation I should have by then. > > I will poke site administrators individually when the migration will take > place. Some sites I can migrate on my own (like the wiki), but for others > it is good to have someone around wo "wears the hat", like Christian for > Silverstripe, since he's more in the know here than I am. > > This should cure most of the ongoing issues with load, as kermit2 has much > more CPU power and RAM. Plus, it will save us some money when we don't have > to run kermit and kermit2 in parallel. > > Next roadmap items after kermit has been migrated is to migrate bilbo, our > machine for downloads and mail(ing lists). This will be a bit more tricky, > since it requires many more components, but if I can move on at the current > speed, I hope it won't take too long. In parallel, I also want to update > some Ubuntu 11.10 machines that already have current hardware to the new > setup, which should be straightforward. Also in parallel, Alex is putting > all of the documentation into SaltStack (thank you so much, Alex!), so we > move towards real deployment as well. > > I also plan to host a public admin call soon, but for the moment, I hope > the above helps in understanding where we stand and what's up for the > future. > > As to virtualization of all services, this is something to look into after > all of the above has been done, and won't be a topic before summer or even > later. > > Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. :-) > > Florian > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > website+help@global.**libreoffice.org<website%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**website/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
