Proposal to ask users about their experiences with VPS
by Peter Boy
Folks,
We decided for „Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime environment“ as our second priority work project. As a first step I consider to send a mail to user list and to "Ask Fedora“ and probably discussion #server-wg to collect experiences with this.
Maybe, a mail like:
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Subj.: Who has experience with Fedora as VPS at a hosting provider?
Text Body:
The Server WG is looking for users who run or have run Fedora, especially Fedora Server, as a virtual private server (VPS/VDS) with hosting providers such as Contabo, netcup VPS, or AWS (Lightsail) and others. We are interested in providing/accepting custom images for installation as well as Fedora offerings by the host provider (Completeness, up-to-dateness).
Would you share with us your experiences? How can we make it easier? What were / are you missing in Fedora?
Please, reply to this mail or share your knowledge in the server-wg channel https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tags/c/project/7/server-wg
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Any ideas? Comments? Better ideas? Better wording? Objections?
What are the best locations to send such a message to?
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Peter Boy
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3 months, 3 weeks
Next week meeting reminder
by Peter Boy
Folks,
Just as a reminder: Our last meeting was 2 weeks ago. Nevertheless, our next meeting is the 1st Wednesday in June, which is June 7, 2023. 17:00 UTC. We have a 3 week gap again this time.
I’ll send the agenda around, soon.
Peter
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3 months, 4 weeks
F39: Add module cockpit-navigatoir to default Installation
by Peter Boy
Cockpit offers a new module, the Cockpit Navigator, a file system browser. This offers especially for new server users a comfortable, graphical way to explore the server and eases the getting started with the server. Including it in the standard installation makes the server more attractive for new users.
Cockpit is configured in comps-f39.xml.in, group headless-management. Group headless-management is used by fedora-disk-server.ks and fedora-server-vm-full.ks only. I didn't find it in any other Kickstart file. So no other installation media is affected by a change.
We have to add a line:
<packagereq type="default">cockpit-navigator</packagereq>
to the headless-management group.
I think, we just have to create a PR accordningly. A change request should not be required for this.
I have created ticket #111 (https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/111).
Unfortunately our IRC meeting last Wednesday had to be cancelled. I think the change is a simple matter and not controversial. Therefore, if no one raises concerns, I will initiate the process on Monday, May 29.
Nevertheless, it would be helpful if everyone adds a vote to the ticket to make the intent of the Working Group completely clear!
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Peter Boy
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4 months, 1 week
F39/40 Work Project: Fedora Server in a virtualized runtime
environment
by Peter Boy
Folks,
On our May 03 meeting we decided:
"WG will pursue ... for F39 ... 'Fedora Server Edition in virtualized environments' with 2nd priority."
I wrote a proposal of a project description:
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So far, both documentation as well as installation media are very much focused on running a Fedora server on hardware or as a virtualized guest of a Fedora host on hardware. In both cases, the system administrator has the most extensive configuration options.
In view of the enormous increases in hardware performance, an individual server project is often no longer able to exploit this performance. A market has developed where professionalized service providers offer a virtualized runtime environment for individual servers, known as "virtual private server" (VPS) or "virtual dedicated server" (VDS). In this case, the setup options of an administrator are significantly more limited. For example, the installation must follow the provider's specifications and organizational requirements.
The =goal= is
(a) to facilitate and simplify the operation of a Fedora server in such a runtime environment by providing special documentation and
(b) also provide customized installation media, if useful.
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Ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-server/issue/110
Discussion of our first priority project via hacked.io is not so successful, so far. Maybe it’s easier using the Mailing List.
As a =next step= I suggest to post on the user mailing list and on discussion and ask for experiences running Fedora Server in a (commercial) VPS / VDS.
It would be really helpful if we could reach agreement on the project plan as well as the next step in the next few days. The dead line for a change proposal (if we want to offer a customized installation medium) is July 18, 2023. That's still a little way off, but not too long either.
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Peter Boy
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PBoy(a)fedoraproject.org
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4 months, 1 week
