[Systems] Hosting with SL
Paul Cotton
paul at laptop.org.au
Thu Aug 28 20:13:31 EDT 2014
I proposed something like this a little while back.
I could tweak it or have Dan attack it if it seems suitable.
On 29 August 2014 07:11, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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