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FOSDEM infrastructure review
FOSDEM infrastructure review: How the team set up and overcome challenges during the 2022 conference, including video installation, network infrastructure, and monitoring.
- The FOSDEM infrastructure review covers the setup and challenges faced during the 2022 conference.
- The infrastructure is owned by FOSDEM, with some equipment provided by the ULB.
- The team uses Ansible for configuration management, but it was not used extensively this year.
- The biggest issue was redoing the video installation on the K building due to hardware issues.
- The network infrastructure was replaced this year, with a 10 gigabit link used for the first time.
- The team uses a render farm to process video streams, with 27 laptops used for rendering.
- The video capturing device is called a “video box” and is used to capture and process video signals.
- The team uses CoreDNS for DNS services and has replaced Bind installations with CoreDNS.
- The biggest challenge was fixing HDMI over VGA issues, which took some time to resolve.
- The team uses Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana for monitoring and logging.
- The conference has a render farm and a video capturing device, with video streams processed in the cloud.
- The team uses a dashboard to monitor the infrastructure and has public dashboards available.
- The biggest issue faced was redoing the video installation, with other challenges including BGP session issues and flapping interfaces.
- The team uses a combination of laptops and render farm for video processing, with a 10 gigabit link used for the first time.
- The conference uses a combination of public and private infrastructure, with some equipment provided by the ULB.
- The team uses Ansible for configuration management, but it was not used extensively this year.
- The biggest challenge was fixing HDMI over VGA issues, which took some time to resolve.
- The team uses CoreDNS for DNS services and has replaced Bind installations with CoreDNS.
- The biggest issue faced was redoing the video installation, with other challenges including BGP session issues and flapping interfaces.