Hey there,
At GSoC the conversation about hardware needs of open source projects came up and someone mentioned "Open Source Lab"[1] has managed and unmanaged hosting services. I'm not sure if this has come up before in conversations before but judging from their 'hosting details'[2] page, I'm wondering if we can take advantage of their services to save some money off hosting or make the life of our students a bit easier.
Just wanted to make sure that people know this exists as it seems to be a useful thing.
I hope you're having a good time at the dev meeting.
[1] https://osuosl.org/ [2] https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/
Thanks Nima! I chatted with the OSU folks too a couple years back about relay and infrastructure hosting. Definitely a neat opportunity if a project can make use of their help.
On Oct 14, 2017 6:53 PM, "Nima Fatemi" nima@torproject.org wrote:
Hey there,
At GSoC the conversation about hardware needs of open source projects came up and someone mentioned "Open Source Lab"[1] has managed and unmanaged hosting services. I'm not sure if this has come up before in conversations before but judging from their 'hosting details'[2] page, I'm wondering if we can take advantage of their services to save some money off hosting or make the life of our students a bit easier.
Just wanted to make sure that people know this exists as it seems to be a useful thing.
I hope you're having a good time at the dev meeting.
[1] https://osuosl.org/ [2] https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/
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Damian Johnson:
Thanks Nima! I chatted with the OSU folks too a couple years back about relay and infrastructure hosting. Definitely a neat opportunity if a project can make use of their help.
Or even better than that, maybe we can use it for what Tom has asked for on "Cloud Compute Resources for Tor Browser" thread. Maybe instead of images as he mentioned in that email, we can have ansible scripts?
I feel like we have a lot more needs in infrastructure and hosting than just running relays. I'd be more comfortable if running relays would be entirely left to the community. This is based on the assumption that getting free infra from Open Source Lab requires some organization level involvement. One of the Googlers said that Google is one of the funders of that project, so I'm guessing we're going to have more chance of approval if we say we're going to use it for GSoC.
Cheers,
On 14 October 2017 at 21:52, Nima Fatemi nima@riseup.net wrote:
Damian Johnson:
Thanks Nima! I chatted with the OSU folks too a couple years back about relay and infrastructure hosting. Definitely a neat opportunity if a project can make use of their help.
Or even better than that, maybe we can use it for what Tom has asked for on "Cloud Compute Resources for Tor Browser" thread. Maybe instead of images as he mentioned in that email, we can have ansible scripts?
This sounds like a pretty solid solution to that problem.
I was reading the notes on 'Bus Factor' from Montreal, and it seems like this might be a good solution to mitigating the bus factor on some of those, including the fastly-hosted Tor Browser updates?
-tom
On 14 October 2017 at 17:52, Nima Fatemi nima@torproject.org wrote:
Hey there,
At GSoC the conversation about hardware needs of open source projects came up and someone mentioned "Open Source Lab"[1] has managed and unmanaged hosting services. I'm not sure if this has come up before in conversations before but judging from their 'hosting details'[2] page, I'm wondering if we can take advantage of their services to save some money off hosting or make the life of our students a bit easier.
Just wanted to make sure that people know this exists as it seems to be a useful thing.
Oh, I just remembered another one of these I saw, although more narrowly focused:
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In particular, the CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL) has free access to state-of-the-art computing resources for open source developers working to advance cloud native computing. They offer access to both x86 and ARMv8 bare metal servers. If you happen to need some real computing power, and it relates to open source software, this might be the free capability you’ve been looking for. For example, it could be used for software builds, continuous integration, scale testing, or demonstrations. Dan’s of the opinion that it’d be sad to see this free capability go unused, and I agree, so please let them know if you need something like this. More info here:
https://www.cncf.io/community/infrastructure-lab/
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The catch is "for open source developers working to advance cloud native computing". Not sure if we can make a compelling argument there, but testing of test tor networks might be a good use case...
-tom
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