GLUG INFRA

Hello again,

For projects like Wiki NITC, Ask NITC I'm currently relying on Oracle’s Free Tier VM. It’s good enough for handling almost anything I throw at it and the only bottleneck as of now is it’s storage. I realised that it’s a pain to manage db and store files in a VM and has decided to keep everything stateless from now on. We are planning on migrating everything to a stateless setup where the Oracle VM or any other future cloud setup we provision will be completely stateless and thereby completely discardable. The vm by itself should never store any sorts of data in form of Databases nor as objects.

The plan is to build reselient on-prem infra that have hardware level backups using ZFS and powered by NixOS to provide Postgresql, mariadb database clusters, S3 endpoints using minio or garage. They can be connected as the data source for all the existing and future web apps deployed by GLUG and also provide these services free of cost for NITC Community in parallel to the services offered by campus. As of now the process to get your apps / services deployed in NITC infra seems to be frustrating. With the implementation of the GLUG infra We Hope we get to make Deploying Homegrown Software as well as other Open Source / Libre solutions more accessible to everyone at NITC.

What Can You Do

As of now we are fueled by ideas and lack the money to make the initial investment on infra. Surely there are options to Look for investment from multiple sources. But as an MVP we plan on reusing the old hardware that might be lying unused at your homes. We want you to contribute to the GLUG infra by donating the unused PC / Laptops / RAM Sticks / HDD / SSDs etc which we can repurpose into infra that can be used by everyone.

Fill the form down below

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Inventory

The following is the list of Items collected for GLUG infra.

List of Items Recieved

SI Number	Item	Quantity	Spec	Remarks	Donated By
1	Laptop	1	Asus Core i5 8th Gen Intel Optane 16 GB Nvidia GTX GFX Card	The SSD has been taken by someone else will need to add that to make it work, Missing charger USB C based charging is unsupported.
2	RAM Stick	1	2GB DDR 3 1600	ADATA Looks clean
3	RAM Stick	2	2 GB DDR 2 800	SIMMTRONICS Looks clean
4	RAM Stick	2	2 GB ( not verified but looks like DDR 3) 1333	RAMAXEL
5	MotherBoard	1	HP | 4x DDR 3 | Looks Like it supports an AMD Processor (Processor Included covered with Heatsink and Fan) | 4x SATA ports. PCI 1 Slot and a X 16 PCI EXP Slot Present | 6x USB ports on board, NO HDMI | CMOS Battery included.