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Nova Meeting August 6, 2013
We met at Spacebar in Falls Church at 8pm Tuesday August 6, 2013. In Attendance:
- Peter Beckman
- Matt Rowley
- Danny Olewine
- Richard Morani
- Charlotte Yakovleff
- Dave Bainum
- Jeremy Schneider
Next meeting will be October 1, 2013 at 8pm at Spacebar.
Core Services
- Web
- SSL: one IP per domain, encourage all domain holders to use an IP
- FTP: Security should be higher here, but keep it around
- Mail
- TLS/SSL: Continue to encourage and teach our customers the value
- POP/IMAP: Keep it flowing
- Webmail: Zimbra was mentioned; other options? Just contributed to the mailpile project: http://www.mailpile.is/
- Anti-spam: As long as Matt is down with it, we’ll use Proofpoint
- DNS
- Admin-managed DNS, offering onsite and offsite primary and secondary DNS
2013 Goals
- An IP with SSH running on all ports to enable customers to circumvent firewalls
- OpenVPN Endpoint
- IPv6 Support
- [De]Centralized User Management and Auth, Configuration Management.
- Options: Puppet, Fabric, Salt, Ansible, LDAP
- Improved Onsite and Offsite Monitoring. Nagios, statsd (https://github.com/etsy/statsd/), graphing
- Get Nova Multihomed and submit IPv4 Space Application for a /22
- Audit and begin billing our non-FPA customers directly
- Power/UPS (I think this is already done for core services)
- logstash
- Get more Colo customers
- Increase Bandwidth on Cox
Actions by Next Meeting
- Charlotte, Jeremy: Audit membership list, who’s paying $180 who shouldn’t be, who’s getting service that shouldn’t be. Also, we should find out if FPA tenants are being billed for Nova.
- Danny, Matt: Audit Best-Effort and Core Colo Rooms.
- Danny, Matt, Beckman, Jeremy(?): Start to build out KVM cluster, plan configuration and layout.
- Danny: Ethernet Patch Panels at the top of each rack for the 4 main racks?
- Dave: Deliver Cisco OnPlus to Danny for a Network Audit
- Danny, Matt, Beckman: Plan out IPv4 use to ensure ARIN usage requirements are met
- Beckman: Outline Admin Hazing/Onboarding Process