== **Data Center Infrastructure Management**
**Project Advisor:**  Alexei Kotelnikov

**Group Members:** Ryan Baik, Jinun Kim, Samuel Kudrna, Alex Kotelnikov, Mattias Dorey

== Project Objective

Create Linux diskless systems for installation and provisioning with Warewulf, as well as to manage our own servers using ssh. 

== Progress Log
**Week 6 - (7/1 - 7/3)**

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fHTzvtmQG6ip6i-DPkrLUBmOjxg78Rr_1Y-W0IYJHkE/edit#slide=id.p Week 6 Slides]
- Set up the Linux environment and practiced basic Linux commands
- Established wireless ssh connection to proxmox servers.

**Week 7 - (7/8 - 7/11)**

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F37MnQQUGdSvrMifOqJqml_H6FXs69INfVNP-j1nDK8/edit#slide=id.g2eb219f4336_0_0 Week 7 Slides]
- Topped up on basic Linux exercises
- Learned and exercise Linux software package management
- Covered Debian networking
- Experimented with different packages

**Week 8 - (7/15 - 7/18)**

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yjNNkvXFKpJV1-lymSCxdO8uhxH2hcL5/edit#slide=id.p1 Week 8 Slides]
- Reimaged server nodes with fog
- Discussed routing and IP calculation
- Learned and practiced file systems with mdraid and zfs:
 - Replaced a disk on the file system after turning it off
 - Unmounted our file system and deleted it
- Practiced networking file systems:
 - We first exported a file system that we each created on our nodes to our container
 - We then mounted the exported file system on our container


**Week 9 - (7/22 - 7/25)**

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1icmSNZEQMcftppDLb8DZKa6iC2Cf2gJS/edit#slide=id.p1 Week 9 Slides]
- Shell scripting:
  - Covered operations, if/else, loops, and functions
  - Worked with awk, grep, and sed
- Installed miniconda3 and activated the environment
- Installed Jupyter Notebook and connected to it in the browser
- Ran through basic python commands
- Ran through many python topics relating to servers:
  - sys - Used to find system-specific parameters/functions
  - os - interacts with the operating system interface
  - shutil -  used for file operations
  - subprocess - spawns processes and allows you to connect to their input, output, and error pipes
  - pysftp - file commands via SFTP
  - re - run regular expressions

**Week 10 - (7/29 - 8/1)**

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e1k9NireTRg948rTuSxa-JJYpTm3PRsP/edit#slide=id.p1 Week 10 Presentation]
- Server setup!!
- Installed warewulf on new linux containers
- Configured warewulf to work with our nodes
- Reinstalled the OS on our nodes using our own warewulf servers

**Week 11 - (8/5 - 8/7)**

[ Final Presentation]
[ Poster]
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