[EdLUG] Advice on Linux migration task

[Mark Turner]

My instinct says that as they are all "Legacy Servers", some 20 years old
etc
start by cataloging them, and putting each one into a virtualized chroot
jail on a new machine, then start writing the docs, and look to see if they
are actually needed, or can be replaced with something better. As an
academic institution you will have huge resources in "Student Projects"
which you can spec out for the lecturers to consider for students, and
rewrite them using something NOT proprietory aws, and push these servers
towards being "Smart contracts" running in containers - whatever containers
are favoured by your institution - maybe docker, or node.js.

Just my opinion, but people like to hang on to legacy stuff just because it
seems to work most of the time.

Mark Turner.

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 20:48, Dick Middleton <dick at lingbrae.com> wrote:

> On 7/21/21 6:52 PM, Geetam wrote:
> > cfg2html may seem a bit dated, but how much has changed? Command line
> commands to gather
> > data still work, don't they?
> >
> > Maybe not as flashy as modern web pages, but it is data collection, not
> flashy webpages to
> > impress your management with pie charts, colours and go-faster stripes.
> 😇
> >
> > I told you, I was retired
>
> I know how you feel :-)  Terrorform "allows infrastructure to be expressed
> as code". Yeah,
> right.  I still think in terms of my Slackware 'Bo' distribution and not
> having the
> faintest idea what 'Bo' meant.
>
> > --
> > I don't know
> > ...
> > I don't know what it is
> > ...
> > I don't know what it is that I don't know
> >
> > Isn't it beautiful
>
> Dick
>
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