New hosting design

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/20/2012 02:22 PM, Eyal Edri wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
>> To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:49:29 PM
>> Subject: New hosting design
>>
>> This email is to kick-off the discussion about how we want to design
>> our
>> new hosting.
>>
>> Presuming the following:
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>> * 2 servers at AlterWay
>> * 2 servers at RackSpace
>> * Both bare metal
>> * Each machine with 4 to 8 cores, 8 to 16 GB
>>
>> How do we want to layout services, interactions, backup, etc.?
>>
>> Ideas/points:
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>> * Migrate Mailman first - easy, crucial, gets jammed up on full
>> Linode
>> * On top of the base OS, how many VMs do we want?
>> ** Does Jenkins master want to own the entire box? Figuring yes ...
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> we're forgetting jenkins slaves, we'll want to create a few vms with various
> OS (f17,f18,rhel63,rhel64...)
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> best practise is not to run any jobs on the master node, but i assume we can run some maven jobs
> on it until we'll set up more slaves.
>
> btw, are we going to use the existing amazon vms as slaves for the new jenkins master?
> at least for starts?

you can continue using them for now, but i'd like to shut them down.
the priority should be to move jenkins of EC2.
gerrit is 2nd priority - it is behaving nicely lately performance wise.


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>> ** Second host, which could be running Gerrit eventually, do we want
>> that partitioned in to VMs? Or does Gerrit want the entire box?
>> Figuring
>> no ...
>> *** Gerrit gets 50% of resources in one VM
>> *** Remaining resources go to host OS and 1 to 4 VMs(?)
>> **** Mailman goes on one of those remaining VMs
>> * Do we need a separate database?
>> ** Does Jenkins or Gerrit use a db?
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> jenkins no - uses only local xml files
> gerrit - yes (git + db)
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>> ** We could have a VM running a db on a private network ...
>>
>> We talked in IRC about having one or more hacking sprints to do Infra
>> work over the coming holiday breaks:
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>> * 26th
>> * 29th
>> * 30th
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>> Any of those work for people? Other suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers - Karsten
>> --
>> Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth
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