[SAC] [OSGeo] #1651: VM for SCM sandbox

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#1651: VM for SCM sandbox
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 Reporter:  tomkralidis    |       Owner:  sac@…
     Type:  task           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:
Component:  Systems Admin  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gitlab,gogs    |
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Comment (by wildintellect):

 There are several options.
 1. repurpose and unused VM that already exists. Has the grub bug that
 requires upgrades to be done very carefully, mildly time consuming
 2. create a new VM on osgeo3 or osgeo4 - potentially time consuming to get
 the OS installed
 3. Make a VM on osgeo6, would require installing KVM+libvrt (if we plan to
 run VMs at all on osgeo6)
 4. Install docker on osgeo6. Providing access to a docker instance but not
 the host is challenging.

 Long term either 3 or 4 is likely. Currently osgeo4 is the best playground
 but only Martin or OSUOSL (so request ticket from me) can manage the
 hosts.

 As far as the wiki page:
 osgeo3 and osgeo4 run KVM VMs under ganeti. osgeo4 is on it's way to
 retirement/playground.
 telascience is more a place for processing data, or potentially using
 build resources.
 osgeo5 is backups only, ignore it for anything else.
 osgeo6 is the newest machine, on which SAC needs to decide how we want to
 manage and isolate different needs from each other, all on main, docker,
 kvm, other? No decision has been made, people ought to propose solutions
 for evaluation.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1651#comment:3>
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