Rootconf 2012

The session demonstrates the process of developing, testing and deploying a “Virtual Lab”. (http://vlab.co.in)

Virtual Labs is an initiative of M.H.R.D. under National Mission on Education through ICT. I would like to take suggestions from other devops gurus for scaling virtual-labs.

Outline

Virtual Labs(http://vlab.co.in) is the project running accross IIIT-H, IITs and a few other deemed universities. There are around 300 virtual labs being developed by various developers from those institutions. There is a central team at IIIT-Hyderabad providing a backend infrastructure with a couple of virtualized instances and web based applications for the developers to make their development easier. In a nutshell the portal provides:

virtual-lab=web_app;
portal=PaaS;

• Version Control
• Bug tracker
• Package Management
• Test Servers
• Deploy Server

The process demonstrates an entire life cycle of a virtual lab from its inception till it is packaged and distributed.

At the end I would like to have some suggestions from the team to scale up the process and the best way of implementing the exisitng setups.

Speaker bio

Medhamsh,
Engineer, IIIT-H,
Another small time Debian contributor :-)

Swetha,
Engineer, IIITH,
Redmine Plugins maintainer :-)

Links

• http://virtual-labs.ac.in
• http://vlab.co.in
• http://developer.virtual-labs.ac.in
• http://devel.virtual-labs.ac.in
• http://devel.virtual-labs.ac.in/wiki

Slides

http://pascal.iiit.ac.in/~medhamsh/presentations/rootconf/