[Confweb-dev] LCA2021 VM

Benjamin Stevens benjamin.stevens.au at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 22:05:01 AEDT 2020


Hi Steve,

I'm unsure as to what to use for IPv4 information for that VM. Can you
provide any advice?

Cheers,
Ben

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 6:39 AM Joel Addison <linuxaus at joeladdison.com>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for getting this setup for us. Noted that we should avoid LVM
> during install as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
> > On 6 Oct 2020, at 11:04, Steve Walsh <steve at nerdvana.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joel
> >
> > Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, the new VM should be ready
> > for you to boot. If you can, please try to avoid LVM when partitioning
> > the disks, we need a different snapshot type on the ZFS partitions to
> > handle this configuration, and it's too easy to end up with a replicated
> > VM that turns out to be unbootable.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > On 30/9/20 11:07 pm, Joel Addison wrote:
> >> Hi Steve,
> >>
> >> Yes tomorrow is fine.
> >>
> >> Long term we don’t intend to have a VM per LCA. We will have a long
> lived VM that will host the various microservices, with each year’s
> services being deployed into this stack and past years rotating out and
> replaced with a static archive.
> >>
> >> The main reason for wanting a new VM at the moment is so we can get
> everything setup on this one, then move the site that is being hosted on
> the GC2020 VM across, without fear of breaking something in the meantime.
> Once this is complete we should be right to shutdown the GC2020 VM.
> >>
> >> We would also like to talk to you about options for redundancy for the
> services, but this can come later.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Joel
> >>
> >>> On 30 Sep 2020, at 9:09 pm, Steve Walsh <steve at nerdvana.org.au> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Joel
> >>>
> >>> I can take care of this tomorrow if that's ok?
> >>>
> >>> For our own planning, is the long term intent to have a VM per LCA
> >>> and/or Pycon-au 'year', or will the microservices stack eventually
> >>> compact down to single machine in the long-term?
> >>>
> >>> regards
> >>>
> >>>> On 30/9/20 8:04 pm, Joel Addison wrote:
> >>>> Hi Admin Team,
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you please create a new VM in Proxmox for us to use for LCA2021.
> >>>> The specs for this can be the same as the existing GC2020 VM - 8GB
> >>>> RAM, 4 CPU, 100GB Disk. Please make this accessible to Joel Addison,
> >>>> Clinton Roy and Ben Stevens in Proxmox. We only need one external IPv4
> >>>> address for this VM please.
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you also please add an Ubuntu 20.04 ISO to the list of choices
> >>>> -
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/20.04.1/ubuntu-20.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Joel
> >
> >
> >
>
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