Open Source System Administration Study Group

This group will learn about system administration topics with hands-on collaborative learning on a homelab setup of four Dell servers. A description of this session's plan in down below.
We’ll deploy components like LDAP(authentication), Ansible (Infrastructure as Code), NextCloud (file storage), OpenStack (Cloud computing), OpenTofu (IaC Terraform fork), containerization and other open source software. We also intend to explore clustering, certainly high-availability and possibly compute clustering.

The first few sessions are going to be devoted to setting up basic infrastructure, including setting up the hardware, installing an OS, setting up LDAP, getting everyone up to speed on SSH and documentation and code repository standards. After that people can work on what they like, but the components listed above are things that at least some of us will be working on.

Feel free to come when what we’re doing interests you, although priority will be given to those who attend regularly.

Your host has been a Linux System Administrator for 15 years.

Signup on Meetup is mandatory

Session 0

This session is about hardware setup. Skip it if you like, but coming will put you first in line for future sessions.

We’ll unbox servers , inventory, test, and tag hardware, and mount the hardware to the rack.