Summer internship follow-up
October 3rd, 2005The internship has come to an end. I am back in Corvallis, started school, and am living in the new house.
If it is of interest to you, here are a few of the things I worked on while I was in Mountain View:
Linux Virtual Server clusters
I was responsible for implementing and scripting our linux virtual server clusters. Between the two clusters (one in Santa Clara and Oregon State) we have 15 static httpd servers, 4 dynamic httpd, and 4 mysql servers. With these we power most of the core services. I can happily report I was involved with LVS’ing the following web sites:
- www.mozilla.org
- addons.mozilla.org
- aus2.mozilla.org
- aus.mozilla.org
- feeds.spreadfirefox.com
developer.mozilla.org
Pretty much I was Deb’s dedicated sysadmin monkey. Together we moved from developer-test.mozilla.org to developer.mozilla.org beta. Rumor has it that we are dropping the beta soon too. ;) I even found myself reading the docs… good stuff! This project has gotten me very familiar with CVS and mediawiki. We ended up needing to fork mediawiki and importing it into our own cvs tree…. all of this was a great learning experience.
Various other tasks
- helping move off of cisco pix to a linux firewall
- dealing with the sfx hack
- generating stats
- Putting out fires
- Shwag rangling at OSCON and LinuxWorld
- pretty much just any odd ball sysadmin task that needed to be done and that Dave did not have time for. :)
Outside of work…. well, see this post.
It was a pleasure to be able to work with the folks down in Mountain View. Thank you to everyone who shared time and experience with me. I am excited to continue working remotely from Corvallis and keep making progress towards graduation.
