[Mageia-sysadm] Infos about the machines

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 08/10/10 00:41 did gyre and gimble:
> Le vendredi 08 octobre 2010 à 01:07 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is some infos about the machines we have, or we will have.
>>
>> Currently we have those machines available :
>> - one dedibox server :
>>   http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-v3.xhtml
>> - two gandi virtual machines, one share for each :
>>   http://en.gandi.net/hosting/
>>
>> Later, we should be able to install some machines in a datacenter
>> (thanks to rapsys). It should be at least 4 powerfull machines. Each
>> one should have between 4 and 12 cores, 8 or 12GB of RAM, and a lot of
>> disk space.
>>
>> Before we are able to setup the machines in the datacenter, we can start
>> using the machines we already have. They are currently used for this :
>>  - the dedibox is used to setup the forum
>>  - the first gandi VM is used by :
>>    * meetbot
>>    * a temporary svn server (to host the website, and servers config)
>>    * an ldap server (Buchan is working on it)
>>  - the second gandi VM is not used yet, but should be used to host the
>>    main website soon
>>
>> I think we can probably start soon to setup the following services :
>>  - dns servers (one on a gandi VM, an other one on the dedibox)
>>  - mailing list server on ml.mageia.org on the dedibox as we may need
>>    new lists soon to organize teams. If using sympa, with users managed by
>>    the ldap server, we need the ldap server and its web interface ready.
>>    But we can start testing now.
>>  - main mageia web site (on the second gandi VM)
>>  - epoll
>>
>> Later, the machines in the datacenter can be used for this :
>>  - Server1: bugzilla/nagios/dns1/sql/ldap/api/mail/mailling/pastebin/wiki/planet
> John have working on updating planet on zarb.org, i guess he will be
> able to transfer that.
> 
> No backup server ? No postfix ( primary and secondary ) ? No wiki ?
> Would all web applications be hosted on the same server ( ie epoll,
> transifex and other applications ? )

"mail" is mentioned above which I presume to mean postfix. Shall we just
decide now not to host any mail accounts (i.e. pop or imap) and only
provide forwarding services or will we provide real accounts?

> We should have a secondary ldap. I would also add a ticket system which
> is not bugzilla ( as infrastructure as a product would be weird ).

Is it really worth adding a separate ticketing system for this?
Integrating it with LDAP so people can report problems etc. etc. (or
would you prefer an uber simple ticket system so that if someone wants
to report that e.g. LDAP is broken, they'll be able to! :D

> And we may need somewhere to write the doc, if possible something that
> can be used offline.

Doc in git? Download it locally or view it live on web, plus update it
easily? Just a thought.

Col


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