infrastructure March 2012

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Moving darkserver to a staging instance
by Kushal Das 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi all, I am ready to move darkserver to a staging instance. The test instance is working smoothly. RFR for the same can be found at [1]. The service does not require any other Fedora service to be up. It can use normal apache level caching. [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3054 Kushal -- http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Suresh R
by R, Suresh (Suresh) 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Hello Infrastructure Team, I am Suresh, 33 years old from Hyderabad, a city in the southern part of India. I am a telecommunications engineer with over 12 years of experience in the field of converged / unified communications. I am currently employed with Avaya (a spinoff of AT&T / Bell labs / Lucent). My daily work revolves around troubleshooting complex problems escalated by in-house Level 3 engineers. A lot of my time is spent in the lab reproducing 'customer reported' problems and studying communication protocols like ISDN, H.323, SIP etc . A majority of our applications are based on RHEL (2.6.18-128) and so I am good at Linux system administration. I do not write code, but someday, I think I will get to it. I am currently preparing for my RHCE exam and I am also trying to learn some serious scripting so I can use that knowledge in my workplace. What can I offer to this group? - I am willing to start with anything that the group believes I can do. As for the meetings, I think I'll just watch for a while and start contributing when I am ready. I am excited at the prospect of working with this group and I look forward to hearing from you all. Thank you Suresh R IRC: rsuresh

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Hello world!!!
by Fortunato Fuscà 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hello everyone, My name is Fortunato Fuscà and I'm from Turin, Italy. I'm familiar with Fedora and *nix system. I would like to contribute with this team. I don't have much experience with writing code and system administration, but it is something that I'm willing to learn. I'm studying computer engineering and i'm very concerned with system administration. I'm look at:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted andI would like to participate and contribute with your team. I would like to have detailed information on how to participate and when you meet on #fedora-admin. Thank you.

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GSoC idea to setup Gitlab for Fedora Hosted, looking for mentors
by Dan Allen 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hello everyone, Since this is my first post, I'll start with a quick introduction. I'm a core developer in the JBoss Community. I've been working for Red Hat for 3+ years. Down to business. I proposed an idea on the Fedora GSoC 2012 page to research using Gitlab as a front end to fedorahosted.org. Gitlab is like an open source clone of Github, supporting code workflow features such as pull requests, code review and repository status updates. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012#Setup_Gitlab_as… I'm looking for someone who would be interested in mentoring this project, as well clarifying to goals if necessary. My hope is that this will help curb the rush of projects moving to github, which is great, but also proprietary infrastructure :( I was thinking about two possible approaches here: 1. Work in a staging server, putting the Fedora packaging stuff aside for the moment and just get an idea of how it will interface with fedorahosted.org and the FAS accounts...basically, a proof of concept. Obviously, the users who have access to the deployed system would need to be limited to avoid the proof of concept becoming prematurely adopted. 2. The other avenue is to just assume we want this and move along the lines of packaging Gitlab and its dependencies so that it can be easily installed on a Fedora machine. Then, infrastructure could take it from there and handle setting it up after that project is done. I extended an olive branch to the Gitlab team to gauge their interest: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/gitlabhq/SQMDi-yyXmU I think this could result in a really positive change for Fedora and attract a lot of developers to the community (if Github is any indication of how massively popular a front end like this can be for community growth). -Dan -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Marcel
by marcel＠light-in-darkness.de 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hello dear Fedora Community, my name is Marcel. I am a 26 years old, born in southern Africa and currently living in Germany. A large part of my private and professional life is dedicated to Linux and opensource/GNU-GPL software. I'd like to contribute to the Fedora Project in some capacity. I don't know in which capacity I can (or may) be of most use. This is why I would like to describe my IT activity. I learnt my trade as a Systems Integrator at a vocational college in Germany. I now work as a technical contractor for a german IT service organisation. My active technical topics are primarily Linux and networking, but for the sake of completeness, I'll include... ...virtualization. Primarily with VMWare, but also with RHEV. ...Microsoft products. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, and probably never will be. But as an IT professional it's almost impossible to avoid contact with Microsoft solutions. As a result I'm able to set up Active Directories as well as Exchange and Sharepoint servers. ...networking and network security. This includes the configuration of routers, firewalls and switches as well as network design. I implement the occaisional VPN gateway. I'm certified as CCNA and CCNA Security. ...network and system monitoring. I design and implement monitoring solutions for customers ranging from small branch offices up to nationwide organisations (several thousand employees and thousands of devices being monitored). I almost exclusively employee Nagios for this purpose. ...Linux! My first and greatest love is Linux. I am a Redhat Certified Systems Administrator and Redhat Certified Engineer. I've done quite a bit with Linux, including router, firewall, file server, print server, proxy (with virus scanning, URL filter, etc), web server, mail filter (virus/spam/etc), virtualization, etc etc. At work I use RHEL or CentOS for servers, at home I use Fedora for my desktop/laptop devices. Due to my work, I've also had the "pleasure" of working with Ubuntu, SuSE and a bit of HP-UX. I would be happy to receive suggestions on how I can contribute most sensibly based on my skill set. Thank you for your time. I hope we can work together in furthering Fedora and Linux in general. Kind regards, Marcel

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config mgmt - what we use from those systems
by Seth Vidal 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, I've complained often about my consternation with how we have puppet used/deployed. In working on a few things this week I started thinking a bit more about what it is we're doing with our config mgmt and what should change. I've also been sending in some patches to another project that is, ultimately, about instance deployment/command and control. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible) What I'm not interested in is talking about tools or projects, here. I'm curious about what it is we require from config mgmt and what it is we want from config mgmt. Things I require/want: - file replacement on change and notification of those changes - pkg installation/removal - service enable/disable/start/stop - service/process state control - variable replacement in files and/or in commands. (maybe this means templating, maybe it doesn't) - some sort of conditionalizing (if rhel5 do X) so you do not have 20 different copies of the same thing just for fun - file replacement that includes cascading through a series of files based on variables: [ filename.$fqdn, filename.$hostname, filename.$datacenter, $filename.$group, $filename ] From my perspective what we USE in fedora infrastructure is more or less: - config-mgmt as a way to configure a system and get it to its normal-runtime state - config-mgmt as a systems-maintenance tool - both to keep things running which occasionally fall over and to make sure that no one inadvertently changes a running system and doesn't commit it to be a persistent change between system reinstalls. We run things like: - we have a new, basic system, please make it into a $blah_type system - be that a webserver, builder, db server, whatever. So I'd like to hear what other people think about what we use and how we use it. end note: Something kevin said in the meeting today made sense to me. Perhaps we should take our server configuration and (independent of any particular config mgmt system) try to describe the set of steps necessary to go from a new instance running el6 @core to a functional server of a specific type.. I suspect if we wrote it all out in a note for any system we'll find that tracking back the set of changes in our puppet configs will be... challenging. -sv

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Plan for tomorrow's Fedora Infrastructure meeting (2012-03-08)
by Kevin Fenzi 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow 2012-03-08 at 20:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics (suggested by whom): #topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks. If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices would like to ask general questions, they can do so here. #topic two factor auth status #topic Staging re-work status #topic Applications status / discussion Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji, community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc. If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note. #topic Upcoming Tasks/Items #info 2012-03-07 to 2012-03-14 - Pycon #info 2012-03-10 - drop inactive fi-apprentices #info 2012-03-20 to 2012-04-03 - F17 Beta Freeze #info 2012-03-27 - drop inactive maintainers from packages. #info 2012-04-01 - nag fi-apprentices. #info 2012-04-03 - F17Beta release day #info 2011-04-03 - gitweb-cache removal day. #info 2012-04-10 - drop inactive fi-apprentices #info 2012-04-24 to 2012-05-08 - F17 Final Freeze. #info 2012-05-01 - nag fi-apprentices. #info 2012-05-08 - F17 release #topic Ssh keypair changes still needed. #topic Tickets from Ages past In this topic we will dredge up old tickets, discuss them and decide if we should do them, retarget them, close them or break them into smaller tickets. #topic Meeting tagged tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/10 #topic Open Floor Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a note replying to this thread. More info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings Thanks kevin

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New Member
by Samuel Patterson 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hey Infratructure Team, My name is Samuel Patterson and I'm the new guy on the block. I'm 21 years old and live in the United States, Im not good with introductions, so i'll make it short. I've been using fedora since the fedora core years and, I decided to start contributing to my fellow man in the open-source community; specifically in fedora. What I want to do is learn how to patch and code. I know it's a mouthful, but I just recently started to learn about both c/c++ and would like to see how I can code software as well as patch things up. I'm in the market for a mentor so anyone is welcome. Thanks, Samuel Patterson

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Hello
by Giuseppe Longo 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello Infratructure Team, My name is Giuseppe Longo and I'm 21 years old and live in Italy. I would like to give my contribute in this community. I want to do is learn how configure HA services, securing servers and services, and to patch and code. See u soon Thanks, Giuseppe Longo PS: sorry for my bad english :-)

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Hello World!!!! (New Member)
by Siam Sae-Lee 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello everyone, My name's Siam Sae-Lee and I'm from San Francisco, California. I'm familiar with Fedora, but have not fully used it until now. In fact, I'm typing this email on the latest version at this moment. Anyway, I would like to contribute anyway I can to this team. I don't have much experience with writing code and system administration, but it is something that I'm willing to learn. I do however have some knowledge of networks and topologies, particularly the OSI Model and TCP/IP as well as another machine (particularly a virtual machine) to test any Fedora builds on. I look forward to hearing more from you folks. Best regards, Siam

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