SAC Meeting 2010-06-07

SAC OSL Transition Meeting

Tentatively planned for June 10th at 11am EST: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=06&day=10&hour=15&min=0&sec=0

Place: #osgeo IRC channel on freenode.

Supporting Documents

• Infrastructure Transition Plan 2010
• SAC Service Status

Agenda

• Alex: Brief summary of the VM creation status at OSL.
  • Created: Web,Secure,Wiki,QGIS,Webextra,Tracsvn,Backup
• Assign primary responsibility for transition of various key services (wiki, backup, mailman, trac/svn, ldap)
  • Backup strategy - Staggered Backup times, Sync to telescience?
• Refine timeline for migration.
• Refine role of the less obvious VMs like "webextra", and "projects".
• Discuss access control strategy (sac, telescience and qgis shell groups for instance)
• Discuss service documentation strategy
• Discuss how we interact with OSL, and how we get access "under the VMs".
  • In the works, access to the host machines will be granted via ssh keys, the same keys used for root on the VMs.
• Support for SSL logins to our services.

Minutes

Attending:FrankW, Wolf, CRSchmidt, nhv, strk, wildintellect, TylerM, Arnulf

Log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2010-06-10.log

• Chris reported on current progress, notably with the trac/svn transition.
• Porting services off osgeo2:
  • planet.osgeo.org: Chris, to webextra VM
  • qgis.org: macho, otto, to qgis VM
  • community.osgeo.org: Tyler needs to harvest some info to Web VM
  • Plan to shutdown osgeo2 by end of June.
• webextra vs. projects:
  • webextra is SAC administered "foundation" services, shell group "sac"
  • wildintellect migrating live.osgeo.org to webextra.
  • projects is user/project administered services, shell group "telescience".
  • Project VM sized at 250GB disk, 8GB RAM, 4 CPUs: wildintellect to request creation from OSUOSL
  • metadata, grass and mapbender services will be establish on Projects VM until a compelling reason is found to establish project specific VMs.
• osgeo1:
  • Plan to shutdown osgeo1 no later than the end of September.
  • Web VM will have all the Drupal sites (osgeo.org, fdo, mapguide) and the port will be done by Wolf, Tyler and aghisla
  • Mail VM (mailman, postfix): FrankW for Mailman, someone yet to be named to do the email/postfix configuration.
  • ldap.osgeo.org: Martin to migrate this to the secure VM.
• we expect bare iron access to the two physical servers in the next week or two from OSU OSL.