ModularIT

This new version includes the following changes:
- Updated to CentOS 5.4
- Included vmtools on base install (Fixes request #61)
- Included gPXE option for the soon-to-be-released ModularIT Remote Boot and Installation Service (MORBIS)
- Cleaned up some repository definitions

This is the list of changes in this version:

== 0.0.5 2009-12-12

• 3 Bug fixes:
  • Bug #59 : When we try to --bootstrap an unsupported system, print supported system list and exit
  • Bug #55 : Correctly use --size option
  • Bug #36 : Change SElinux to permissive mode

• 3 Minor changes
  • Feature #49 : Add --mac option
  • Change default template file name
  • Change default config file path

The new PIFIA alarm GitChk can track changes in configuration files and alert or autocommit any changes.

As any PIFIA alarm, we can tell it what to do writing config files in /var/lib/pica/obj/GitChk/GitChk.* In this file, we tell GitChk which directories we want to track, and the level of proactivity (automatic actions).

The format is the following:

# directory     proactivity level:
#               none => no action
#               init => only init repo and initial commit
#               commit => also do automatic commits
/etc            init

The proactivity levels are:

• none: No action is taken, just generate a notification
• init: If the given directory is not being tracked with git, initialize the repo and do an initial commit. It will NOT commit any subsequent check
• commit: always do automatic commits if it finds changes

By default it only tracks /etc with level init

Right now this alert only commit changes to a local repository, it does not send changes to remote repos.
We have been thinking about this, and since we are supposed to do backups of everything, we already have all this info in the backup.
We may add support for remote repos in a near future

Due to a problem with CentOS bootstrap, we just published version 0.0.4 that uses authconfig instead of pwconv

This new release is a complete rewrite as a gem and is published as a RPM package called rubygem-vmtools

The new features are:

== 0.0.3 2009-08-22

• 6 major enhancement:
  • Bootstrapping debian/ubuntu machines
  • Configure ModularIT puppet parameters on machine creation
  • Network configuration for debian systems
  • Adapted to generate rubygem-vmtools RPM package
  • Simple tests for options
  • Config file management

This new version includes a lot of new functionalities and contains a complete live system for recovering failed servers.

The live system can also be used to install a server remotely. With the new sar script (and some configuration on your servers), you can install a server even if it is installed behind a firewall.

Durante la celebración del Gran Canaria Desktop Summit se impartio un Taller de Virtualización acargo de Kuko Armas que demostró su buen hacer en el arte de la comunicación y la transmisión del conocimiento.

I just published the ModularIT NOC service.

This service is used to control all ModularIT servers. It uses Nagios for monitoring and Puppet for configuration management.

I just uploaded a new OpenERP service virtual machine. The server includes the OpenERP 5 server and the Web interface

ModularIT presentation took place at Córdoba's college yesterday (25th february of 2009) as part of the event Jornadas Técnicas Sobre Software y Conocimiento Libre 2009 . A little more than 100 people attended, most of them were computer science students. The video recording of Toscalix's talk will be available soon.

• Find the slides of the talk on the Document section or click here ModularIT long presentation in spanish
• You can also check the slides through slideshare