Meeting Notes: Mar 7, 2019

Date: March 8, 2019 (postponed)
People: galfert, gregkare, maxsan, raucao, slvrbckt
Topic: Infrastructure and public services

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Find a scribe
3. Infrastructure
   1. Current status
   2. Services
      1. Chat: XMPP server
      2. Chat: Sockethub
      3. Social: Mastodon
      4. Dev: Gitea
      5. Dev: Drone
      6. Kredits: IPFS
      7. Kredits: Ethereum
      8. Payments/donations: Lightning Network
      9. Payments/donations: BTCPay Server
   3. Donations
   4. ...

Notes

Current state

• all servers currently sponsored by 5apps
• beeing able to track expenses soon would be nice
• infrastructure is all documented at https://wiki.kosmos.org/Infrastructure
• most of services on Andromeda are not currently configured via chef or anything else
• started to experiment with Kubernetes in December
• greg started setting ejabberd via Chef
• raucau started to setup Drone CI on GKE
• not having CI on Gitea yet is preventing moving our repos there for now
• memory issues with IPFS should be fixed now (after the last update)

Plans

• XMPP server:
  • need a cluster on seperate servers (requires external DB server)
  • open PR at https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/chef/pulls/9 for Chef config
• Mastodon:
  • move user files from S3
• Gitea:
  • waiting for Drone support on Kubernetes ATM
  • need HAProxy ingress setup to stop paying for an expensive load balancer
• IPFS:
  • should run some more nodes on other servers/machines
  • making Kredits be configurable to use your own IPFS node would be nice
• Ethereum:
  • would be nice to have our own node running on a separate server (it's using a lot of resources)
  • maybe run a RSK node?
• BTCPay server:
  • create a multi-sig wallet and add its XPub to BTCPay

Action items

• need to split up the chef PR for ejabberd
• check out Mastodon code for possible remoteStorage integration for user files
• max is going to run IPFS on his homeserver
• look into https://www.rsk.co for deploying the Kredits contracts
• look into config options to minimize resource usage of an Ethereum node
• create Letsencrypt and Nginx config for BTCPay
• create Letsencrypt and Nginx config for payments API