Server based Services

Read Custom Solutions first; the following are only additional, more specific details.

Delegator

Accountable

Team Polaris:

Contact

#polaris Team Chat

Purpose

This team domain focuses on building, operating, and supporting custom solutions, and maintaining building blocks based on Linux Servers using the VSHN Puppet framework and related services and central infrastructure, while also helping out in other areas of Custom Solutions.

Stakeholders and Key Deliverables

More specific to Custom Solutions.

Solution Customers

Solutions based Building Blocks, for example:

Product Customer

Server based products, for example: GitLab by VSHN.

Key Responsibilities

More specific to Custom Solutions
  • Operations and Support of custom solutions with a focus on Managed Linux Servers

  • Provisioning and running instances of server based products, currently only: GitLab by VSHN

Key Resources

Infrastructure and Tooling
  • VSHN Puppet framework

  • Maintenance automation framework

  • Icinga-based monitoring stack

  • Burp backup system

  • PuppetDB-based metered billing

Products

Mindset, Skills and Capabilities

Skills
  • Linux System Engineering

  • Networking

  • Puppet

  • Ansible

  • Major Database Systems (as Server Admin, not DBA)