SAC Meeting 2018-02-15

Agenda

Where and When

• in IRC on Freenode, channel: osgeo-sac Feb 15 2018 UTC: 8 PM
  • Web IRC client: https://webchat.freenode.net/

Go over status of SSLs - FOSS4G2018

January 4th 2018 Meeting

• Website code: https://github.com/foss4g2018/foss4g2018
• The code for the payments is also very simple HTML - we'd be happy to host in a single point
  • 3rd party payment service: Pesapal
• post-meeting. To be moved to webextra, with ssl in front
  • merge them and have the payment site be something like https://2018.foss4g.org/registration
  • ragnvald: https://github.com/timlinux/foss4g2018
  • Ensure we have continuity within our payment systems

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New Website status report

Report:

• [Vicky & Jody] Experimented with what can be done on the site.
  • Role Incubator & Role Project PSC to handle Projects.
  • See the note: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2075
  • Please decide if those roles can be created on main site
• [robe] Status of staging.www.osgeo.org now setup on web18a.osgeo.osuosl.org (plans to migrate production to there as well)

 Eventual shutoff of cloudvps.com hosting

Sys Admin Contract

• [martin]:

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Martin to report on what he's been working on.

Migration off old hard-ware AND Virtualization, Containerization, or None

• Discussion pending on list (moderator: could not find the mail thread)
• Needs:
  • trac is painfully slow (now seems better with Chris Gorgi's recent changes to apache config)
  • osgeo6 is running an ancient Debian, needs to be updated

Leaning to libvrt since it can be done with one server (less resource intensive than ganeti), with possibility of moving to ganeti next year when we get more hardware.

DONE: Alex sent quote to mailing list, Updated Feb 15 ~$6300-7000. Chris Gorgi has some ideas, may provide enhancements

• DONE: provide clarification of new hardware purchase options suitability for hosting type. (wildintellect)
  • LXD was a suggestion as an alternative to full Virtualization with KVM, more similar to virtual machine than say Docker.
  • We can mix containers and virtualization
  • Easy candidates for containers include Downloads and Webextra (FOSS4G) which are static files.
• Suggestions:
  • Optane card for extra disk caching beyond memory - Question how do we configure this?
  • Fill RAM, mostly caches requests, in particular file downloads
  • Larger DWPD rating for SSDs to better handle writes - Question, we didn't do this for OSGeo6, anything we should look out for? Should we estimate life of OSGeo6 drives and replace pre-failure next couple of years.
  • 4 TB Spinning disks, still plenty of space (7+ usable), takes less time to rebuild on failure, cost diverted to other features.

Any other feedback from others to be discussed

Others

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Trac SVN status

• Regina looked at postgres load and see if anything amiss there and if any query bottlenecks

Concluded apache is our main issue.

• Chris Gorgi made changes to apache config which helped and suggests changes to DNSSec

Ticket Triage

• More https setup (got a couple of these, last our downloads which seems critical)
• Bas says we need downloads.osgeo.org under SSL

• Add support for registering public user SSH keys in LDAP

GeoForAll DNS

Jeff to report on status of GeoForALL and other DNS issues he's been fixing

Next Meeting

Proposed Time: UTC: Thursday, March 1st, 2018 at 8:00 pm

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