Server

• Web

SSH

• SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
• Tips for Remote Unix Work (SSH, screen, and VNC) [1]

Handy

tmux

SSH keys

in ~/.ssh

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"
cat id_rsa.pub

SCP

• man scp

SSHFS

• Notes on SSHFS

Rsync

• Rsync over alt SSH port: --rsh='ssh -p8023'

Systems

Backup

• rsync - [Wikipedia:rsync]
  • rdiff-backup

Provision

• Puppet Labs
  • Puppet Master - Central management daemon.
  • Puppet Agent - Runs on each managed node.
  • Puppet Apply - For local use.
  • http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/tools.html etc.
  • Puppet Wiki: Core Types Cheat Sheet
  • Puppet Wiki: Simple Text edits
  • Ubuntu puppet info
  • AUR: puppet
  • AUR: puppet dashboard

• Chef visual [2]

• Fabric - Python SSH library

Virtualisation

• VirtualBox manual
  • Guest Additions
  • Virtual networking
  • VBoxManage
• Arch Wiki: VirtualBox
• VirtualBox Headless VM

VirtualBox config;

• Enable host Linux modules: vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp
• Enable host-only adapter 'virtualbox0' in VB Preferences > Network if not previously enabled, then select in guest preferences
• https://github.com/milkmiruku/boxbootstrap
• Keep VM names lowercase and no spaces for easier command-line stuff

Provisioning VirtualBoxes for local dev work;

• Vagrant - VirtualBox provisioning with Puppet, etc.
  • Commands
  • Boxes
  • Vagrantfile: config.puppet
  • http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/puppet_server.html
  • http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/puppet.html

vagrant package --vagrantfile Vagrantfile.pkg --include README.txt
  stored in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes
vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
vagrant box remove lucid32
vagrant box list

IaaS

• http://nova.openstack.org/

Knowledge management

• WP: Knowledge_management
• http://www.cmdbuild.org/en/progetto/descrizione

Services

Video streaming

• Live WebM video streaming with Flumotion

E-mail

• Ask HN: How do you do your email delivery?
• http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix

Anti-spam;

• dspam [3] [4]
• http://www.postfix.org/addon.html

• http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/1533224/Ask-Slashdot-Self-Hosted-Gmail-Alternatives

Google Apps

• Google Apps Email Walkthrough