Linux System Breakfixing

In this workshop, teams will work to fix the broken deployment of an application running on a Linux server.

System Requirements

Note that this workshop content was authored on a Debian Linux machine, and so the various scripts & utilities are written in support of that. There may be a few instances of code that is non-portable to BSDs like macOS, but should work fine on WSL.

As a workshop administrator, you will need the following:

• A terminal emulator capable of running the bash shell program

• HashiCorp Terraform (if running workshop on a cloud platform)

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In addition, for local testing you will need HashiCorp Vagrant, and at least one installation of a supported Vagrant provider. At the time of this writing, those supported providers were VirtualBox and libvirt. If on WSLv2 on Windows, you will have a MUCH easier time using the libvirt provider.

Workshop participants will need the following:

• An SSH client

  • On Windows, this is typically puTTY as a standalone tool, or Git Bash or WSL. macOS should already have the ssh client program installed.
  • Note: participants will not need knowledge of SSH key management, etc. -- auth to the team servers will be password-based.

• Little enough knowledge of Linux OSes to not figure out how to cheat :)