[kwlug-disc] LDAP Integration question.

[Joe Wennechuk]

Sounds to me like LDAP is not what you want. If you are administering several servers there are good tools. I am most familiar with ansible, and I love it.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/review-puppet-vs-chef-vs-ansible-vs-salt-231308


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> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 03:11:00 -0500 
> From: chamunks at gmail.com 
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org 
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] LDAP Integration question. 
> 
> I have been growing a bit of a web community over this past year 
> learning an awful lot about systems administration. This process has 
> lead me to learn that giving a little can get you a lot. This said 
> I've ended up with a bit of a dilema. I have this massively complex 
> network of different services and servers here and there that require 
> maintenance and security and all to be updated as well. So in my 
> attempt to not only cater to the opensource community surrounding the 
> game that I support, I have many servers with many roles kicking 
> around. 
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of LDAP, unfortunately my recording of 
> the LDAP meeting was just frustrating for me to review, as I just don't 
> have the time and hardware to record it properly. I'll avoid going 
> much further into my situation but essentially I have a few things that 
> need LDAP integration. Such as. 
> GitLab.nixium.com<http://GitLab.nixium.com> (Self Hosted GitHub variant) 
> ci.nixium.com<http://ci.nixium.com> (Jenkins Java build service) 
> nagios.nixium.com/nagios3/<http://nagios.nixium.com/nagios3/> (A 
> learning project) 
> irc.nixium.com:5500<http://irc.nixium.com:5500> [znc] a bouncer I'm 
> sharing with devs from the community. 
> An LDAP instance running phpLDAPadmin (for security purposes address 
> omitted from this email) 
> [Planned Puppet Master Server] 
> 
> Then an array of minecraft related servers/services that require per 
> box and per service account management. 
> 
> Clearly handling this starts to get a bit out of hand. My issue is I 
> have no clue how to manage the roles here. Nor do I recall how to 
> handle config files like the following example. 
> 
> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Gitlab_and_Active_Directory_LDAP_Authentication.html 
> 
> Basically I'm unsure of how to create a schema that will handle this 
> complexity. 
> 
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