Platform Team/Server Kit/Architecture
< Platform Team | Server Kit
Common purposes
- Having common project(s) and friendly support customization on purpose in downstream products:
- Modularizing when components might be included on purpose to fulfill local needs,
- Not patching in downstream but supplementing the upstream, e.g., install upstream packages and just add additional packages with local customization without patching upstream code/configuration,
- Provide useful API for any new components;
- Be a GNU/Linux distribution agnostic. It doesn't make much sense in case of having only Server on a school server and, e.g., installing Server from the ISO but it makes sense if downstream organizations ship their products based on the Server and having particular GNU/Linux distribution is important;
- It is not only about supporting XO laptops but about any Sugar based environments;
- Up to 1000 students per server.
Components
| Component | Provides | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sugar-server | Required services:
Optional services:
|
The core component. The singular package with only python, and obvious ones like coreutils, dependency required to let its services function properly. |
| sugar-server-base | Optional services:
|
Handling configuration of basic external services that need to be installed and configured on bare servers at school. |
sugar-server
The Server provides basic services to support sugar based, and XO laptops in particular, infrastructure at schools. There is only one CLI tool to manage Server related functionality, sugar-server utility.
sugar-server-base
Thats an important part of the Server, since it should configure core services that need to be provided by a server at school. The configuration happens in GNU/Linux agnostic manner, basing on mace utility.
Distribution
The ways how upstream project might be obtained:
- Sources
- Third party repositories with binary packages for particular GNU/Linux distribution
The downstream organizations can choose the most practical way, eg, by using upstream repositories and adding new binary packages to tune upstream configuration.