Project Bringing Sexy Back
This is an effort toward the end of Fall 2017 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.
Contents
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.
Hardware Configuration
Hardware we will definitely have:
- temp88191
- Cyberdelia
- Wood
- 2x SGI (Phantomphreak/Joey)
Assuming we do get SBB funding
Additional hardware: 2x R620
- Router: temp88191
- NAS: Cyberdelia due to its HDD capacity
- oVirt Controller: R620
- oVirt Workers: R620 Controller, the other R620, Phantomphreak, Joey
- HPC: Wood due to its 4U height that can easily fit gpus
If we don't get SBB funding
We probably need to get some additional RAM & CPUs for Wood in this case in order to do the cluster.
- Router: temp88191
- NAS: Cyberdelia
- oVirt Controller: Wood
- oVirt Workers (via PXE): Wood, Phantomphreak, Joey
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
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
- Monitoring (crashandburn)
- oVirt mostly takes care of this for us
- Prometheus or Nagios if more detailed monitoring is needed
- Routing (temp88191)
- NAS (cyberdelia)
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
- DNS (lordnikon)
- 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
- 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)
- mirror.vtluug.org (mirror)
- 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 uses - most people don't use it anymore
- Have people re-register with FreeIPA
/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
- 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)
