28 May 2024 to 1 June 2024
University of Ottawa
EST timezone

Supporting a development lab with FreeBSD

31 May 2024, 14:45
1h
Desmarais 1120 (University of Ottawa)

Desmarais 1120

University of Ottawa

Lecture 50 min SysAdmin Talks: Room 1120 - Friday

Speaker

Chuck Tuffli (FreeBSD)

Description

It was a disaster, not of the natural kind, but one that was corporate. Big Corp had decided to reorganize and move my team to another division. Similar to a natural disaster, our team was now homeless and cut off from the essentials: a file server, "desktop" systems, and directory services. Our choices were to ship our fleet of systems halfway across the country to be managed for us or create our own infrastructure. We choose the later using services found in FreeBSD and a handful of third-party packages. This talk will describe how we used FreeBSD to provide auto-mounted home directories, user accounts that worked on any machine, and virtual desktop systems to duplicate our previous setup and how we have subsequently enhanced it.

Primary author

Chuck Tuffli (FreeBSD)

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