Project Bringing Sexy Back

Note: This page does not reflect current infrastructure. It is for planning purposes.

This is an effort toward the end of Fall 2017 and early Spring 2018 to get new hardware, determining if we can use old hardware for anything, bring many vtluug services back to life plus add new services, fix major problems relating to the current infrastructure, make managing the current infrastructure easier, and to provide enough documentation so that anybody can have a very good understanding of how everything works without having to ask the officers about every little thing. This will be summarized in the Sysadmin Handbook

One major change is running an oVirt cluster to managing everything, along with offering a VPS service in addition to shell accounts on Acidburn. This is not possible with the current hardware.

Getting new hardware

Cyberdelia is the only connected physical machine right now, besides our router. See Infrastructure 2017. We are planning to request funding from the SBB for new infrastructure as early as possible Spring 2018.

We are still working on exactly what to ask for, but here are some desirable things: //TODO link items

Priority	Item	Estimated Cost
10	Dell Poweredge R620s	$600 ish

Ideally we will get 2. A much more detailed price analysis will be done for the SBB.

\o/ We got $1300 to get 2 R620s!!

Hardware Configuration

Hardware

• temp88191
• Cyberdelia
• Wood
• 2x SGI (Phantomphreak/Joey)
• 2x R620s (Names TBD)

Configuration

• Router/DNS Server: joey (sry temp88191 is too old)
• NAS: Cyberdelia due to its HDD capacity
• oVirt hosted-engine: Both R620s, Phantomphreak
• HPC: Wood due to its 4U height that can easily fit gpus

We may also get some additional hardware early Spring 2017. This will replace Phantomphreak/Joey, become the oVirt Controller, or the NAS depending on its specs. TBD

Diagrams in progress

Networking

See Infrastructure for a mostly up to date networking layout.

This section reflects the services decscribed in the following section.

Public IPv4 addresses

Function	DNS	IP
Router/DNS	joey.vtluug.org	128.173.88.191
oVirt Controller	meltdown.vtluug.org	128.173.89.244
Webserver	sczi.vtluug.org	128.173.88.78
Shell Server	acidburn.vtluug.org	128.173.89.245
FreeIPA	zerocool.vtluug.org	128.173.89.247
Mirror	mirror.vtluug.org	128.173.89.246
Matt's server	mjh.ece.vt.edu	128.173.88.104

As per echarlie, "check rdns. if there isn't an entry, and it's in ece's allocated block, we can use it."

Private IPv4 addresses

We also use private addresses for things like NAS. This isn't 100% figured out yet, but we will probably do something like use 10.0.0.0-100 as static IPs and run DHCP on 10.0.0.101+.

IPv6 addresses

See Infrastructure.

Service Importance

Note: This secion's PoV does not taking into account the current state of service. Instead, it assumes services are being installed to a new infrastructure.

All necessary services send notifications to officers for alerts.

Syntax:

• Service (VM name | Container name)
  • Comment

Urgent

Bare Metal

• Routing (joey)
• DNS (joey)
• NAS (cyberdelia)
• oVirt hosted-engine (crash and burn)
  • oVirt requires DNS & NAS
• Monitoring (crashandburn)
  • crashandburn.vtluug.org - also oVirt dashboard
  • oVirt mostly takes care of this for us
    • See https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/12/ovirt-metrics-store
  • Prometheus or Nagios if more detailed monitoring is needed

VMs

• FreeIPA (zerocool)

K8s

• Sczi proxy (sczi)
  • For proxying *.vtluug.org because we don't have unlimited v4
• vtluug.org (vtluug)
• wiki.vtluug.org (wiki_vtluug)
• gobblerpedia.org (wiki_gobblerpedia)
• hokieprivacy.org (hokieprivacy)
• pSQL (wikidb)
  • For storing wiki.vtluug.org & gobblerpedia.org

Very Important

Bare Metal

• VPS system (crashandburn)
  • Somewhat automated system where a user is given a VM
  • Possibly is really easy with oVirt
  • Possibly do something like <user>.users.vtluug.org

VMs

• Shell (acidburn)
  • Member pages @ vtluug.org/~user
• rsyslog (theplague)
  • Need to research this a bunch
• Mail (acidburn)
  • Possibly in Docker instead of VM

K8s

• Wadsworth (wadsworth)
• duckhunter9000 (duckhunter)
• truncatedcone (truncatedcone)
• multimediamanv2 (multimediaman)
  • Produces /files/irc-vtluug.org

Important

VMs

• mirror.vtluug.org (mirror)
• Tahoe-LAFS (crashoverride)
  • Possibly put in container
• telnet BBS
  • How tf do these things work
• wargame.vtluug.org (wargame)
• Archive Team Warrior

K8s

• linx.vtlug.org (linx)
• bash.vtluug.org (bash)
• foodfor.vtluug.org (foorfor)
  • .pickfood, .foodvote
• emby.vtluug.org (emby)
• map.vtluug.org (map)
• jitsi.vtluug.org (jitsi)

Other things to consider

• diaspora*
• finger (kerberos)
• talkd

Migration

VTLUUG Site

• Migrate to docker

VTLUUG wiki

• Backup content
• Migrate to docker

Gobblerpedia

• Backup content
• Migrate to docker

Wadsworth/phenny

• Backup db (for .in)
• Migrate to docker

VTBash

• Migrate to docker

Hokieprivacy

• Migrate to docker

Linx

• Move files to NAS
• Migrate to docker

Acidburn

• Migrate homedirs to NAS
• Currently have a ton of users - most people don't use it anymore
  • Have people re-register with FreeIPA
• Implement background tmux irc systemd service

/tank

• Backup then clean up
  • Either to tardis or a temporary NAS

Issues with current services

When (re)implementing services listed above do the following changes.

VTLUUG Site

• We're literally proxying a static github page (vtluug.github.io)
• Probably should be redesigned to be slightly more dynamic using jekyll or flask or something

VTLUUG wiki

• Need meeting script
• Need to clean up a lot of old information

Gobblerpedia

• Lots of out of dat information
• Building templates

Wadsworth/phenny

• Things constantly break, but there's nothing we can really do about this
• Migrate to irc3 pythong library for a stable core
• Migrate SysV scripts to systemd unit files

VTBash

• Old shitty interface converted from python2 to python3
  • Nothing good seems to already exist, so we probably need to write one from scratch
• Need to merge 2 old sqlite databases
  • Causes bug when only 1 quote author is entered, this is why they can't be merged

Hokieprivacy

• Mobile formatting is fucked, at least for FF on Android
• Out of date

Linx

• Offload storage to NAS
• Binaries need updating
• Need to do reddit stress test

vtluug.org/files

• Need easy way fo non-root to add stuff here

mail

• Train spamassassin
• Sieve doesn't seem to work

gopherspace

• who tf uses gopher

TOR services

linx, hokieprivacy, and the main site (hence vtluug.org) can be accessed over tor. advertise these urls or make them more memorable (or both)