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Hosting Open Source Projects at the OSUOSL
The document summarizes the Open Source Software Lab (OSUOSL) at Oregon State University, which provides hosting for open source projects. It discusses the history and growth of OSUOSL over the past 4 years, from hosting around 60 projects on 10 racks to now hosting over 300 machines and 130 VMs for many well-known open source projects across 22 racks. It also outlines the services, staffing, funding sources, tools, and future plans of OSUOSL.
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- 1. Hosting Open SourceProjects at the OSUOSL Lance "Ramereth" Albertson Systems Administrator / Architect
- 2. About me OSUOpen Source Lab
- 3. Server hosting forOpen Source projects
- 4. Open Source developmentprojects
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- 8. In the Beginning...University President sees "www.orst.edu" on a sign
- 9. Maintain - DNS/DHCPmanagement
- 10. Seed money fromOSU Network Services
- 11. First clients aresome of the most well known Open Source projects Picture flickr user 'tappnel'
- 12. Why do hostingat OSU? " Our commitment to the development and application of Open Source is consistent with our drive to be the land grant university of the 21st century. Through open source activities we are helping under-served populations around the world and creating new industries and new products at home. " OSU president, Ed Ray
- 13. Timing is everythingPost dot-com bust = lots of dark fiber
- 14. Invested $250K intolaying 11mi of fiber to I-5
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- 17. Newly renovated datacenter
- 18. Staff 8 full-timeemployees / ~8 undergrad students Hosting
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- 28. Hired at Freshmenor Sophomore year
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- 30. Data Center Specs2770 sqft, 76 Colo racks, 11 IDF racks
- 31. Dual independent power feeds ea400A / 480V
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- 34. Single generator 55ton cooling capacity via 3 Lieberts One of two primary UPS's
- 35. Networking NERO Networkfor Education & Research in Oregon 10 Gbps to NERO
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- 37. 2 Gbps toupstream (10 Gbps coming soon)
- 38. IPv6 coming soon10Gbps uplink to NERO
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- 42. Hosted Machines 266servers + ~100 MeeGo servers
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- 44. Projects purchase/own servers 22 racks used by OSL currently
- 45. Project racks: Drupal,ASF, Gentoo, Linux Foundation, MeeGo What are they running? Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD
- 46. ASF & DrupalRacks
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- 51. Services Provided atthe OSL Co-location hosting
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- 60. New York, NY6 TB capacity
- 61. Split via DNSview
- 62. 700 Mbps avgtotal
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- 64. Virtualization Ganeti GanetiWeb Manager Linux KVM hypervisor
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- 66. Primary cluster 5machines / 75VMs Project clusters phpBB, OSGeo, OSM, ORVSD
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- 72. Hardware donation byFacebook
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- 74. Hosting FAQ Hostingtailored to each project
- 75. Target medium-large "highimpact" projects
- 76. Typically outgrown theircurrent hosting
- 77. Bad experiences withother hosting
- 78. Let the projectscode instead of worrying about their site
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- 80. Submit request tosupport@osuosl.org
- 81. What we lookfor Widely used project
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- 83. Needs fit withinour resources
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- 85. New Projects /Stories Supercell launched
- 86. New Projects Elgg,crosstool-NG, speed.python.net, Project Harmony, Freedroid, OpenStreetMap US, Mageia, Sahana Foundation, Meego, Open Compute Ganeti Web Manager
- 87. New Outreach Manager/ Meego Dev
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- 89. Growth 4 yearsago... <10 racks
- 90. ~60 machines /~30 VMs
- 91. ~60 projects Today22 racks
- 92. 366 machines /~130 VMs Same amount of people resources
- 93. Tools We UseConfiguration management CFEngine+git Operating systems Gentoo: ~115 machines
- 94. CentOS: ~30 machinesMonitoring Nagios, Cacti, Munin Issue Tracking RT: external tracker
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- 96. Why Gentoo? EarlyHistory
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- 101. Tightly integrated intoour CFEngine * Gentoo upgrades introduce a different set of problems compared to binary distros
- 102. Funding Donations LargeCorporations
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- 107. Future Puppet migrationShared server management
- 108. More flexibility Morevirtualization
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- 113. Questions? Lance Albertson[email_address] @ramereth http://lancealbertson.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
Editor's Notes
- #4 LH suggests using the www.orst.edu billboard image for one slide then move on to these other points - the visual image is stunning First hosted projects (2003) Debian, Gentoo Early hosted projects (2005-ish) Apache Software Foundation Mozilla, Drupal Kernel.org, Freenode
- #7 talk about who each person is for the subbullets and a little bit about their role. changed number of FTEs and students to be accurate with what I know
- #8 Mentoring by me and senior students Start with little Linux experience usually Work up to 20hrs/week during school year Get awesome jobs!
- #10 Separate from OSU network IPv6 coming soon*
- #14 Mostly Dell, HP, SuperMicro, & Sun Must be rackable, include OOB, & Approval
- #25 Decided by staff on a case-by-case basis Be specific in what your project needs Be patient, we've very busy usually!