Wichert Akkerman - Plone.Org Infrastructure

Plone.organ overview of the plone infrastructure

Who ?

• Former lifetime: Debian

• Plone developer

• Plone 3 release manager

• Plone infrastructure team lead

• Simplon

What ?

• Issue trackers

• Mailing lists

• Source control systems

• Web sites

How?

• 90% existing software

• 2% custom changes

• 2% custom software

• 6% cursing and frustration

• equals 100% love (we hope)

For who?

• 681 commiters

• over 1 million downloads

• over 200 Plone companies

• the whole world uses Plone!

24 hours per day

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Plone Collective

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Plone Collective

Internet

Web server

proxy cache

Load Balancer

Zopeinstance

Zopeinstance

ZEOserver

LDAP

Zopeinstance

ZEOserver

Zope hosting

Debian GNU/Linux

PloneHelpCenter

PloneSoftwareCenter

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PloneOrg

Bluffing

• ~ 150k page views per day

• Plone is not nearly fast enough

• Fake it!

Varnish vs Squid

• Squid help enormously

• Varnish helped even more

• ~80% cache hit rate

• CacheSetup makes it possible

Source Control

• Subversion

• Synchronised to svn-mirror.plone.org

• Access control via LDAP

• Reporting to CIA and mailing lists

Who are you ?

• Authentication required for services

• Duplication is evil

• Single account database

LDAPserver

LDAPserver

plone.org

plone.net

dev.plone.org

svn.plone.org

LDAPrepllication

svn commitmails

LDAP everywhere

LDAP Statistics

• 28971 accounts

• ~ 1000 new accounts per month

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LDAP accounts

LDAP setup

• OpenLDAP everywhere

• PloneLDAP is your friend

• Apache is your fiend

No Worries Mate

• Spam on dev.plone.org

• Spam on lists.plone.org

• Spam on paste.plone.org

• Postgres and Varnish stability

• Robots are coming to get us

Pain pill

Dreams ...

• Plone 3.0 for plone.org and plone.net

• Redundancy

• Single sign-on