[Linuxcoe-devel] GOSA and LinuxCOE

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Hello,

Some of you may know I'm interested in producing a dploy.org project
gathering LinuxCOE, Mondorescue, mrepo and additional glue between all
those bricks.

During my visit of Solutions Linux 2009 in Paris
(http://solutionslinux.fr/), I encountered Benoit Mortier, who is working 
for OpenSides (http://www.opensides.be/) and contributes to the GOSA
project (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gosa).

Gosa is a framework providing a management Web interface for users,
groups, systems, ... based around an LDAP server. Everything is stored
in LDAP, making it easy for inter-systems communication and queries +
allows easy HA and replication.
Demo at https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/wiki/demo

And also exists GOSA-SI which provides deployment services for systems
based on GOSA + a DHCP+LDAP patch and a TFTP+LDAP server. Which makes
deployment very easy using that infrastructure. In fact much simpler and
dynamic that what I was working on :-)

They work mostly with Debian, and this system has been developed for the
city of Munich (DE) and supports thousands of systems.

Benoit kindly offered 3 hours of his time to explain me how all that was
working, and I really think that my Dploy.org idea should migrate to
that platform as:

0/ It's GPL
1/ They have a nice Web interface, much better than what I ever could
code (written in PHP + Templates).
2/ They have a plugin interface so making addition of services as easy
as possible.
3/ They are using perl for GOSA-SI plugins
4/ They do not have an imaging solution. So I could plug Mondorescue.
5/ They have support for Linux, LTSP and Windows deployment but using
   only FAI (Linux) and opsi (Windows)
6/ They use trac for their infra (I love ;-)
7/ They plan on an OCS Inventory integration
8/ They even have packages (deb and rpm)

We could work with them to integrate LinuxCOE as is, and benefit from
the nice Web interface they have on top of LinuxCOE.

Then I think that LinuxCOE could provide code to enhance their project,
allowing them to have native deployment support for RPM based distro.
They already have a profile notion, not sure how that's overlaping.
They do not have replay feature.

What do you think ?
Bruno.
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