class: center, middle, background-main # Sysadmin Team Report ## GUADEC 2014, Strasbourg ### Presented by Andrea Veri --- class: background-slides # Rack - We moved all our machines away from a shared rack to a dedicated rack - All the KVM consoles and PDUs were correctly configured for each machine at PHX2 - All the iLOs for the Ubuntu machines hosted at the Canonical London DC have been configured .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ] --- class: background-slides # New physical machines - accelerator.gnome.org - range.gnome.org - pitomba.canonical.com (aka socket.gnome.org) - dragonfruit.canonical.com (aka progress.gnome.org) - Thank you Red Hat and Canonical for making all this happen! # Retired physical machines: - drawable.gnome.org (donated to the Cockpit Project) .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ] --- class: background-slides # New virtual machines - buildable.gnome.org (serving as our GTK3 Win32 bundles builder, thanks Tarnyko for all the efforts on this iniative!) - pentagon.gimp.org (serving all the content and services previously hosted on cube.gtk.org, thanks to Shawn Amundson for hosting cube for all the past years!) # New projects on the GNOME Infrastructure! - Yorba (Geary, Shotwell, Valencia) - GIMP (and its subprojects, BABL, GEGL) , GTK - We are glad to have you on board and hosting your services! .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ] --- class: background-slides # Uptime - We now have at least one sysadmin on-call 24/7 for major issues sent to emergency@gnome.org or picked up by Nagios (Currently Andrea and Patrick switch daily) # ...and a new member! Wondering who Patrick is? Patrick 'puiterwijk' Uiterwijk is a new addition to the Sysadmin Team helping me sharing the load! It's amazing how passionate he is about his new role on the team! .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ] --- class: background-slides # New services: - Mirrorbrain is now serving our main download area at https://download.gnome.org - Mirrorbrain and all its dependencies have been packaged for Fedora / EPEL - DNSSEC on all the major hosted domains such as gnome.org, guadec.org, gimp.org, gtk.org - static.gnome.org, it is currently serving all the static content for the various GNOME websites! - GlusterFS is now being used on our data servers! - it substituted our old NFS node - data is replicated over two nodes - automatic fail over setup in case one of the two nodes goes down - We have one more surprise for you! Make sure to be around at Patrick's talk on the 28th! .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ] --- class: background-slides # Changes on existing services - Automatic commit robot for l10n.gnome.org - RT3 (Request Tracker) to RT4 migration - Mysqld replica setup - Dell's OpenManage Nagios services to perform targeted hardware checks - Mass cleanup of inactive git / master account (performed monthly) - CATPCHAs on mail.gnome.org .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ] --- class: background-slides # Backups: - New backups solution! - One of the Fedora's main backup machines makes use of rdiff-backup to backup every single GNOME machine - rdiff-backup allows us to benefit from both incremental and historical backups - Only downside is the Fedora machine being hosted on the same DC as the GNOME machines (not ideal as a Disaster Recovery plan) - Soon an off-site backup facility. - Thanks to Kevin, Patrick and Stephen for helping us out on this! .logo[ <img src='https://www.gnome.org/wp-content/themes/gnome-grass/images/gnome-logo.png' alt='GNOME Logo'> ]