Data Center Infrastructure Management ¶

Project Advisor: Alexei Kotelnikov

Group Members: Ryan Baik, Jinun Kim, Samuel Kudrna, Alexander 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)

​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)

​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)

​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)

​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)

​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