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--- manuals:vps:vpsadminos [2023/02/02 23:36] – deleted openVZ parolek
+++ manuals:vps:vpsadminos [2024/10/09 18:11] (current) – Remove staging environment aither
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 ====== vpsAdminOS ======
-Since OpenVZ Legacy is no longer supported and new distributions
+vpsAdminOS is a host system for containers developed by vpsFree.cz. We use it
-don't work there, we had to find a way to upgrade our kernel, which
+to run our VPS.
-meant choosing a different virtualization technology. Linux kernel now
-has some support for containers, so we've decided to use it.
-We needed some distribution that we could use on nodes to serve as
-a hypervisor, as a replacement of Scientific Linux 6 with OpenVZ kernel.
-We've chosen [[https://nixos.org|NixOS]], because it allows us to declaratively
-configure the system and its services. And since our requirements are quite specific,
-we're maintaining our own spin of NixOS called vpsAdminOS.
-[[https://github.com/vpsfreecz/vpsadminos|vpsAdminOS]] is based on
+===== About vpsAdminOS =====
-[[https://nixos.org|NixOS]] and [[https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os/|not-os]].
+vpsAdminOS is a spin of NixOS. The host system is rather small and includes only management
-It's a //live// distribution serving as a hypervisor for container
+services, as it focuses on running everything else in Linux system containers. vpsAdminOS
-virtualisation.
+is interconnected with vpsAdmin, our control panel. It is however also usable outside
-vpsAdminOS naturally integrates with vpsAdmin, our administration interface
+of vpsFree.cz's infrastructure, e.g. on your home server.
-with web interface. However, vpsAdminOS is meant to be fully usable even on its own,
-outside vpsFree.cz's infrastructure.
-===== Staging environment ======
+If you're interested in our stack and how vpsAdminOS works, see https://vpsadminos.org.
-In order for all members to test VPS on vpsAdminOS, we've created so called
-staging environment. It's similar to playground, where everyone can create a
-VPS. When creating a VPS, just select location **Staging** and deselect **Keep platform**.
-The VPS will be created on a vpsAdminOS node.
-It's terms of use are similar to [[manuals:vps:playgroundvps|playground VPS]],
-only it can be a bit rougher, like unplanned outages and reboots when we need
-to fix something. Everyone can use up to 8 CPUs, 4 GB RAM, 120 GB disk space,
-public IPv4 addresses and 32 IPv6 /64 addresses. You can split these
-resources among 4 VPS.
-You can either create a new VPS or clone an existing production VPS.
-All mounts are removed when cloning, because NAS isn't acessible as of yet,
-see [[#user_namespaces|user namespaces]].
-==== Features ====
-Features can be turned on/off individually. When any change is made, the VPS restarts.
-{{ :navody:vps:vps_features.png |}}
-  * FUSE - "Filesystem in Userspace" Enables the kernel module to allow non-privileged users create their own file systems.
-  * KVM - "Kernel-based Virtual Machine" Enables KVM for hardware support of virtualization.
-  * LXC nesting - "Linux Containers" Enables nested LXC containers.
-  * PPP - "Point-to-Point Protocol" Enables communications protocol used to establish a direct connection between point-to-point links.
-  * TUN/TAP - "TUN routing/TAP bridging" Enables the creation of virtual interfaces that are then bridged.
 ==== More about vpsAdminOS ====
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   * https://vpsadminos.org
   * https://github.com/vpsfreecz/vpsadminos
-  * IRC chat.freenode.net #vpsadminos
 ==== Reporting bugs and ideas ====
 Choose at your own discretion:
-  * [[information:chat|IRC]]: #vpsfree and #vpsadminos on chat.freenode.net
+  * [[information:chat]]
   * podpora@vpsfree.cz
   * vpsAdminOS issues: https://github.com/vpsfreecz/vpsadminos/issues
   * vpsAdmin issues: https://github.com/vpsfreecz/vpsadmin/issues

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