mlejnek

Since I need to describe the process of creating KAFE's new VM to the admins of LEMMA RS, I might as well put it here:

KAFE's new home is called mlejnek and it is a VM in Stratus.FI. It has these specs:

• Debian 12
• 8 GB RAM
• 2 GB of swap space
• 64 GB system storage
• 2 TB archive storage

We use the following software for KAFE's basic operation:

• GitLab Runner for running CI jobs.
• Docker for KAFE's individual containers.
• Portainer for management of Docker containers.
• Traefik as a reverse proxy configured by container labels. It also obtains certs from Let's Encrypt.
• FFMpeg as a provider of video metadata and for converting videos.

Once we had this basic setup, we communicated with CVT FI to set up the following services:

• Put the VM into production mode:
  • Get a public IPv4 and IPv6.
  • Change the owner of the VM to an employee of FI.
  • Set up Nagios for automatic notification of downtime.
  • Point kafe-stage.fi.muni.cz at the VM.
• New group in faculty administration, adm_kafe, that manages mail_kafe.
• New group in GitLab - LeGTVaR - that is synced to mail_kafe.
• Bacula to backup of the archival storage and the VM itself through.
• CNAME records for kafe-stage.fi.muni.cz and kafe.lemma.fi.muni.cz. Both point to kafe.fi.muni.cz

Finally for the Games extension, we contacted ICS MU, who then pointed games.muni.cz to a nameserver of FI. CVT then added a CNAME from games.muni.cz to kafe.fi.muni.cz.