[Systems] Hosting with SL

[Prasoon Shukla]

Hmm. I actually made an icon a while back that I'm using in Discourse right
now.

Here it is : http://54.187.40.150/images/social-help-copy.png

Let me know if this is okay (though it probably isn't since I made it in
something like 10 minutes). Even if it is not, still, I suppose we can
elaborate on this icon. What do you think?
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it looks good to me (I will merge if +walter or somebody else signs
> off on it).  There are a few bugs  in the activity but we can fix 'em super
> quick.
>
> You should get an icon for your activity (view-help?) and then post it on
> the aslo (updating system stuff through the store works well on android).
> Look here:
> https://github.com/SAMdroid-apps/sugar-activities/blob/master/README.md
> and http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/
>
> Sam
> On Aug 27, 2014 2:45 AM, "Prasoon Shukla" <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sam made a few changes to my PR - I've merged them in. So, I suppose with
>> Sam's approval, we are ready to go. Sam?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Matthew Ciao <matthew at laptop.org.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> just poking around to understand what's the latest news here?
>>> Prasoon/Sam, are you already all up and running or...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> *Matthew*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21 August 2014 09:29, Matthew Ciao <matthew at laptop.org.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi dogi,
>>>>
>>>> nice email !! :)
>>>>
>>>> I just joined #treehouse - my nick is bashintosh on IRC. I am sysadmin
>>>> @olpcau. :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> *Matthew*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21 August 2014 08:22, Stefan Unterhauser <stefan at unterhauser.name>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am dogi devops and take physically care of all the sugarlabs
>>>>> machines hosted in the medialab
>>>>> I am also the main user (virtually) of freedom
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for my delay,
>>>>> and sorry for this long email
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> but I was busy fixing all the boot issues in the VMs which was hosted
>>>>> on freedom
>>>>> <http://munin.treehouse.su/gar/DOMs/freedom.treehouse.su/libvirt.html>
>>>>> this was due the reboot after the upgrade to 14.04
>>>>> there are 23 VMs on this machine (17 of them are active)
>>>>>
>>>>> even it looks like 2 days of stable running we will know earliest by
>>>>> the end of the month (monthly cron),
>>>>> if all stuff we tweaked the virtual machine host (freedom) survived
>>>>> the upgrade to 14.04
>>>>>
>>>>> anyway bernie thank you for all your help with upgrade :)
>>>>>
>>>>> but keeping in mind that disk I/O shortage is causing an average load
>>>>> of 5
>>>>> I wonder if our best bet for testing is freedom
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the best way of spooling this docker thing ;) down gracefully
>>>>> is to do it at least for now treehouse.treehouse.su
>>>>> <http://munin.treehouse.su/gar/DOMs/treehouse.treehouse.su/index.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> treehouse is as freedom and justice
>>>>> <http://munin.treehouse.su/gar/DOMs/justice.treehouse.su/libvirt.html>
>>>>> a 64GB ram machine, has 12cores in 2cpus instead of 8
>>>>> and is right now in the last process of harddrive testing
>>>>> one of the 2 refurbished hd-drives already failed :( -> I need only
>>>>> one to last
>>>>> I have there two raid1's over at least 3 (sometimes 4) harddrives one
>>>>> in hd and the other in ssd ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> so far I run there some tiny experiments like
>>>>> http://chat.media.mit.edu, http://genome.media.mit.edu:8003, farmier
>>>>> and dirt are both drupals ...
>>>>>
>>>>> treehouse so far is a machine with a plain new ubuntu 14.04 install
>>>>> and is supposed to be next production machine
>>>>> for all the valuable experiments on freedom like http://publiclab.org
>>>>>
>>>>> some of you may wonder what treehouse(.su/gar) as an entity is,
>>>>> it is a loose group of devops and ala
>>>>> which are using the IRC channel #treehouse
>>>>> <http://chat.media.mit.edu/?channels=treehouse&nick=>  on oftc.net to
>>>>> share and an learn about systems administration
>>>>> and got created 2009 backed up by necsys
>>>>> <http://web.media.mit.edu/~mbletsas/> of medialab with the intention
>>>>> to middle between sugarlabs and olpc in form of 2 servers -> treehouse and
>>>>> housetree
>>>>>
>>>>> anyway on #treehouse irc channel right now there are at least 4 people
>>>>> with docker experience
>>>>> isforinsects <https://github.com/GITenberg/> (former olpc sysadmin)
>>>>> nicocesar <https://github.com/nicocesar> (fsf sysadmin)
>>>>> itamarst <https://github.com/itamarst> (https://clusterhq.com/ and
>>>>> flocker!)
>>>>> and
>>>>> myself ... yes did already do 18 months ago first experiments ...
>>>>> I did end up scratching them -> not stable enough at the time ;(
>>>>> ->  but I have a lot of ssh tunnel experience :P
>>>>>
>>>>> also forgot freedom, justice, treehouse and housetree (-> working on a
>>>>> clusterhq version with zfs) are all in the same serverroom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> long email short
>>>>> I strongly advise not shaking freedom right now more then necessary
>>>>> (only one new thing (update to 14.04) at the time),
>>>>> but can offer temporary access to treehouse which is a machine on its
>>>>> way to be a new production machine
>>>>>
>>>>> Hereby I officially add bernie as root user on new treehouse ;)
>>>>> if all of you send me sshkeys and perferred username I can hook you up
>>>>>
>>>>> xo
>>>>> dogi
>>>>>
>>>>> PS: email is not my forte ... will try to be shorter next time ;) -> I
>>>>> strongly prefer IRC or other sync media :P
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Prasoon Shukla <
>>>>> prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey all. Just got back from classes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> @Matthew, @Sam: I have no idea how ssh tunneling works and I've never
>>>>>> done it before,  so I guess if you guys think it's alright then it's fine
>>>>>> by me, too.
>>>>>> ᐧ
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I like Matthew's the idea of ssh proxying it, but wouldn't a
>>>>>>> nginx/apache proxy be more appropriate?  That seems to be how all the other
>>>>>>> SL stuff goes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did you dockerify the redirector thing?  Just wondering :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Matthew Ciao <matthew at laptop.org.au
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 20 August 2014, Bernie Innocenti <
>>>>>>>> bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Status update: Freedom is now running Ubuntu 14.04 and still
>>>>>>>>> holding well.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I installed docker.io and tried setting up a simple container to
>>>>>>>>> ensure
>>>>>>>>> everything works. It did.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nice one!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Now we'd be ready to deploy your image and experiment with it. Sam
>>>>>>>>> &
>>>>>>>>> Matthew: what should I do next? I guess you need a public ip and a
>>>>>>>>> dns
>>>>>>>>> entry for it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For testing purpose I'd SSH tunnel into the system and use dynamic
>>>>>>>> port forwarding to the application listening on localhost.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That way you don't need to bind Docker to a WAN facing interface.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's a good security measure that avoids exposing the testing
>>>>>>>> instance until is fully ready and secured.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If security is not a concern in this case, then public IP and a DNS
>>>>>>>> CNAME record should do the trick!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sam/Prasoon what do you think?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For fast turnaround, please chat me on #sugar, as I don't check my
>>>>>>>>> personal email very often during work days.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 08/18/2014 10:20 PM, Matthew Ciao wrote:
>>>>>>>>> > Sure, I'm always on IRC #olpc-au (@freenode) but if you let me
>>>>>>>>> know
>>>>>>>>> > where you folks hang out I'll be there..
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > On 19 August 2014 12:16, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org
>>>>>>>>> > <mailto:bernie at sugarlabs.org>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >     Dogi and I are meeting at my place in 20 minutes to start
>>>>>>>>> upgrading
>>>>>>>>> >     freedom to Ubuntu 14.04.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >     Then we'll install Docker. If you'll be around in about 1h,
>>>>>>>>> any help is
>>>>>>>>> >     welcome.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >     On 08/18/2014 10:14 PM, Matthew Ciao wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >     > Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     > I have some experience with Docker on virtualized systems
>>>>>>>>> (KVM) -
>>>>>>>>> >     we use
>>>>>>>>> >     > it to run our build/cross-compile environments for low
>>>>>>>>> level driver
>>>>>>>>> >     > development here at OLPCAU.
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     > Glad to lend a hand if needed however Bernie was first so
>>>>>>>>> I am
>>>>>>>>> >     second in
>>>>>>>>> >     > the queue of available people for this project :)
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     > On 19 August 2014 07:06, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>> >     <mailto:sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> >     > <mailto:sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>> >     <mailto:sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     >     Hey,
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     >     > What access level do you need in order to setup and
>>>>>>>>> >     configure your
>>>>>>>>> >     >     > container(s)? I'd rather not give out root access to
>>>>>>>>> our
>>>>>>>>> >     production
>>>>>>>>> >     >     > hosts, but several SL sysadmins can help you.
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     >     Normally you need root but you can set up a docker
>>>>>>>>> group:
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> https://docs.docker.com/installation/binaries/#giving-non-root-access
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     >     Sam
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >     >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >     --
>>>>>>>>> >     Bernie Innocenti
>>>>>>>>> >     Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
>>>>>>>>> >     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Bernie Innocenti
>>>>>>>>> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
>>>>>>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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