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Lix infrastructure guide

Information about adminstering Lix's infrastructure.

Machine and service overview

The Lix infrastructure is maintained with Nix code at https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/web-ser...

Auth/SSO systems

A major part of Lix infrastructure is the authentication/SSO systems. Here, you can find informat...

Buildbot runbook

Our buildbot instance has a habit of breaking due to excess load. Restarting the worker If the wo...

Why

Why? Why self-host all your own infrastructure? We tried not to, at the very beginning of the pro...

Obliterating history from Git

To obliterate history from the Git repo means removing it from three different sources: Gerrit, F...

Tooling improvements

We use a lot of tooling. There are papercuts we run into with our use cases that we would really ...

Postmortems

Working with S3

Introduction We use garage, an open-source server compatible with Amazon's S3 API, hosted on our ...

Creating Matrix Rooms/Spaces

actual explanation will follow, tldr; here: create room with the matrix API or a client that all...

Merging Gerrit identities

Basically, following https://ovirt-infra-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/General/Gerrit_account_mer...