Digital Infrastructure » History » Version 46
Francois Soulard, 08/06/2024 09:35 PM
| 1 | 8 | Francois Soulard | # Digital Infrastructure of the YOU(th) CARE initiative |
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| 3 | 46 | Francois Soulard | <br> |
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| 5 | ###New dedicated server |
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| 7 | 32 | Francois Soulard | * A **dedicated server** has been deployed from scratch to host the main services around the e-learning platform. |
| 8 | 18 | Francois Soulard | It is hosted in a Hetzner datacenter located in Germany https://www.hetzner.com and managed by Traversées. |
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| 11 | 26 | Francois Soulard | * **Hardware profile** : EX130-S model, featuring a Intel Xeon Gold 5412U (RAM 256Gb, 24 cores) with two disks of 3.84TB NVMe SSD (IPv4 162.55.20.209). https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex130-s/configurator/#/ |
| 12 | 39 | Francois Soulard | If needed, a larger disk can be added on demand later. The same for memory capacities. The current hosting cost is about 170 EUR/month. |
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| 15 | 9 | Francois Soulard | * **Server configuration** : |
| 16 | 38 | Francois Soulard | * Operating sytem: Debian 12 |
| 17 | 1 | Francois Soulard | * ProxMox Virtual Environment (PVE 8.2) |
| 18 | 44 | Francois Soulard | * Disk geometry: RAID 1 with 2 common partition: /boot (ext3) and /boot/efi (esp); one partition with LVM with a unique Volume Group (vg0). The logical volumes within vg0 are root, swap and data. |
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| 21 | 16 | Francois Soulard | * **DNS registers** |
| 22 | 34 | Francois Soulard | * The main DNS registers of youth-care.eu are managed by the YC team (Giulia Pugnana) |
| 23 | * The following domains have been created (beginning of August 2024): |
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| 24 | * community.youth-care.eu > campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in production mode) |
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| 25 | * dev.campus.youth-care.eu > dev.campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in development mode) |
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| 26 | * meet.youth-care.eu > bbb-yc.rio20.net (Big Blue Blutton) https://meet.youth-care.eu |
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| 27 | 1 | Francois Soulard | * video.youth-care.eu > peertube-yc.rio20.net (Peertube) |
| 28 | 11 | Francois Soulard | * kb.youth-care.eu > knowledge-base-yc.rio20.net (Redmine) https://kb.youth-care.eu |
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| 31 | 46 | Francois Soulard | ### Security and backup |
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| 33 | 35 | Francois Soulard | * **Security** |
| 34 | 1 | Francois Soulard | * PVE firewall and Fail2ban (shield for intrusions and attacks) have been installed in the main PVE environment. |
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| 37 | 1 | Francois Soulard | * **Backups** |
| 38 | 35 | Francois Soulard | * Each services (virtual servers) will be backed up daily and weekly to the Cloud Storage of Hetzner according to a differenciated backup policy (to be defined later). |
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| 41 | ### Stack |
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| 43 | 27 | Francois Soulard | * **Stack of services** (virtualized in the main host) |
| 44 | 35 | Francois Soulard | * Redmine (ticketing and knowledge base) https://kb.youth-care.eu |
| 45 | * Moodle and Iomad (Iomad is an extension of Moodle for a multi-entities configuration) |
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| 46 | * Big Blue Button (advanced videoconferencing) https://meet.youth-care.eu |
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| 47 | 37 | Francois Soulard | * Peertube (streaming and video on demand) |
| 48 | 1 | Francois Soulard | * Zabbix (server monitoring) (hosted in another Traversées server) |
| 49 | 35 | Francois Soulard | * Matrix/Discourse (messaging) |
| 50 | * Jitsi (videoconferencing) |
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| 51 | 37 | Francois Soulard | * Matomo (web statistics) (hosted in another Traversées server) |
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| 53 | 33 | Francois Soulard | All this stack, from the host server to web applications, is based on free and open source software. |
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| 56 | 33 | Francois Soulard | * **Third-party services or software** |
| 57 | 36 | Francois Soulard | * Gladia (AI live captions for Big Blue Button): an account has been created to test the automatic live captions during videoconferencing. |
| 58 | * Edwiser: The RemUI template https://edwiser.org/remui-moodle-theme/ for Moodle has been bought in its "Bundle" extended, as suggested in the original tender and confirmed by the YC coordination team. |