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Debian Academy VPS

Please provide the specifications that you require:

Please provide details as applicable:

What will this instance be used for, who will be the target audience?

To Host Moodle, LMS and similar tools. The Debian Academy team and its users.

Who will maintain this service? Will it be team maintained?

  • Dashamir Hoxha
  • David Billsbrough
  • Joost van Baal-Ilić
  • Mitja Podreka
  • Jonathan Bustillos
  • Anastasios Lisgaras

It will be team maintained

What will you use for backups?

rsync and if it is possible snapshots

Will you be adding this service to https://wiki.debian.org/Services along with a service page under that name space? (this is not essential, but see this as a reminder to do so if appropriate for the service)

No

Check-list for Debian.Net Team

  • Select an appropriate platform for the request.
  • Spin up a VM in the appropriate platform.
  • Hetzner Only: Add IPv4 and IPv6 reverse-DNS entries.
  • Add the Debian.Net Team's SSH keys to root's authorized_keys.
  • Set PasswordAuthentication no in sshd_config, restart sshd.
  • Add an account for the requester adduser --disabled-password USER.
  • Grant sudo access to the requester adduser USER sudo.
  • Unset the user's password, so they can set it themselves: passwd -d USER
  • Add the requester's SSH keys to their account's authorized_keys.
  • Provide IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in a comment, so the requester can create DNS records.
  • Add the instance to the infrastructure repo
Edited by Stefano Rivera