[Systems] Hosting with SL

[Walter Bender]

Maybe we can get Paul (or Dan) to sketch something.

-walter


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Prasoon Shukla <prasoon92.iitr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
> ᐧ
>
>
> 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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>


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Walter Bender
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