[cfarm-admins] Offer for Sparc machines

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Baptiste,

Am 21.07.2018 um 00:03 schrieb Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org>:
> If you are able to provide a few dedicated machines for the GCC compile
> farm (let's say 2 or 3), and also provide support for them (updating the
> OS, installing new packages, etc), then this is really a great addition to
> the farm!

This should be possible.

> Regarding practical matters:
> 
> - we need direct SSH access to the machines.  It can be on ports different
>  than 22, so you can use the same public IP address for all machines.
> 
> - we deploy users and their SSH keys using Ansible (via SSH as root).
>  I expect it will work well on Solaris, but if you provide a first
>  machine we can test it.
> 
> - we also use Ansible to automatically gather technical information, for
>  displaying them on https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
>  We also install packages through Ansible as much as possible, so that
>  new machines automatically get all the packages previously requested by
>  farm users.
> 
> - regarding storage, we need ideally at least 500 GB for /home on each
>  machine: users tend to leave stuff behind.  If it's too difficult to do,
>  you can put all storage for /home on a single machine, and mount it
>  through NFS on all other machines.
> 
> Does that all sound good to you?

Yep, sounds good. Ansible works ok with some mninor tweaks, I use it myself for
some tasks. I am currently travelling, I’ll prepare a machine by end of July
so we can do some tests and see how it goes. I’ll keep you posted.


Best regards

  — Dago

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