Ubuntu Open Week: Ubuntu hike to servers

A brief compilation of irc-chat within the framework of Ubuntu Open Week on the topic “An Intrepid journey in Ubuntu Server land”

Hike Ubuntu servers . Speaker: Mathias Gug

The speaker himself, as well as some of the developers he represents, are part of the Ubuntu Server Team .
This is a group of people who have their own interests both in the server software and in the field of systems for the corporate sector: LDAP, AD, Web, mail, network authentication.

During the last release cycle (as part of the release Intrepid) was achieved:

• ~ / Private encryption using ecryptfs. A further development will be the creation of a graphical interface for managing encrypted directories.
• ubuntu-vm-builder was rewritten to support plug-ins, which allowed supporting new releases, fstab templates, several hypervisors.
• Added option to boot from a damaged (degraded) RAID array, which has been waiting for a long time.
• considerable work has been done on adding spamassassin and clamav to the main repository.
• now they can be easily connected to postfix using amavisd-new. The goal for the future is to script the installation of this entire farm in order to achieve the deployment of an integrated working environment of the mail-server without any changes in the configs by hand.
• work is underway on adding support for cn = config to slapd. Migration of slapd.conf to the new system is guaranteed when updating to Intrepid. Praise this new backend for the ease of downloading new schemes and accessing ldap for applications.
• Ubuntu Server Guide updated.

Next comes the story of how much attention they pay to errors: search, tracking, correction, testing, packaging. For those who want to help, there is a list of trivial bugs , you should start with those who want to join the MOTU .
Another simple way to help the server team is to simply load a typical delivery.
(and possibly alpha / beta of the following releases) on server hardware available to you. The report on the successful or unsuccessful installation on the available server hardware is also valuable to them. And finally, the reading of materials from the wiki, the Server Guide, filling in the ideas pool by ordinary users is of great interest to them. It can be seen that the project can be helped in many ways in many directions. Constantly asking for help, but what do they do at this time and how effective is their work? You are welcome:

• There is a constant fixation of the work done in the Roadmap .
• meeting once a week for discussions on pressing issues.
• mailing-list and blog are involved for coordination.

And now - slides, that is, questions. About RAID. How comparable is the level of support for this storage technology in Ubuntu and Red Hut? Answer: Absolutely the same as in Red Hut.
About tacacs +. As it turned out, he is not in Ubuntu. How to add? Answer: wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages
On the answer about joining efforts to document projects between Debian and Ubuntu, the speaker and the audience bowed. An hour has passed unnoticed. We wish them good luck.