[Systems] Google Code-in Tasks (Sysadmin)

[Walter Bender]

Nice. Thx

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Martin Abente
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks good to me :)
>
> @Walter: What do you think?
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Samuel Cantero <scanterog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello guys!
>>
>> Bernie and I have been thinking about some tasks for the GCI contest. As
>> Martin (tch) said in another email, we should double check these tasks are
>> "compatible" with the contest topics.
>>
>> Below the first draft:
>>
>> Title: Analyze and optimize the Sugar Labs wiki performance.
>> Category: Research / QA / Other?
>> Description:
>> The main documentation for the Sugar Labs organization is placed in the
>> Sugar Labs wiki. Speeding up the wiki access is important for the community.
>> Analyze and optimize our wiki using Google PageSpeed Tools. Get a score of
>> 85 or above for the Sugar Labs wiki.
>>
>> Google PageSpeed URL: https://developers.google.com/speed/
>>
>>
>> Title: New mailing list for Sugar Labs.
>> Category: Research / Other?
>> Description:
>> In Sugar Labs, as most open source organizations, we use mailing lists to
>> communicate with one another. Currently, we are using mailman 2.
>> Make some research, for example among other open source organizations, to
>> propose at least one new open source package to deploy a new mailing list
>> for Sugar Labs.
>> Implement the chosen software using Docker containers.
>>
>> Title: Write a Munin plugin to monitor network resource usage on Docker
>> containers
>> Category: Coding
>> Description:
>> In Sugar Labs, we use Docker container to host important services.
>> Monitoring the resource usage is critical for the infrastructure health. We
>> have written a Munin plugin to monitor CPU and memory usage on Docker
>> containers. The next step is  to monitor the network usage on our Docker
>> containers. This tasks requires writing a Munin plugin, preferably in Perl,
>> for monitoring network resource usage on Docker containers.
>>
>> Docker runtime metrics: https://docs.docker.com/articles/runmetrics/
>> Git Repo: https://github.com/scanterog/munin-plugin-docker
>>
>> Maybe I have to create a new repo for this on the sugarlabs-infra git
>> organization.
>>
>> Title: High availability in our Docker infrastructure.
>> Category: Research / Other?
>> Description:
>> In Sugar Labs, mainly we use Virtual Machines and Docker containers to
>> host our main services. We want you to test the Docker Swarm functionality
>> in order to create a Docker cluster.
>>
>> For this task, you will have two clean Ubuntu VMs in order to install and
>> configure the Docker Swarm. We will provide you also two Docker images. In
>> order to complete the task, the docker cluster and the failover
>> functionality must be working.
>>
>> Any advice is welcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Samuel C.
>
>



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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org