System Administrator Guide

The Fedora Infrastructure Apprentice group in the Fedora Account System grants read-only access to many Fedora infrastructure machines. This group is used for new folks to look around at the infrastructure setup, check machines and processes and see where they might like to contribute moving forward. This also allows apprentices to examine and gather info on problems, then propose solutions.

Members of the Fedora Infrastructure Apprentice group have ssh/shell access to many machines, but no sudo rights or ability to commit to the Ansible repository (but they do have read-only access). Apprentice can, however, contribute to the infrastructure documentation by making a pull request to the infra-docs repository. Access is via the bastion.fedoraproject.org machine and from there to each machine. See the ssh-sop for instructions on how to set up SSH. You can see a list of hosts that allow apprentice access by using:

from a checkout of the Ansible repository. The Ansible repository is hosted on pagure.io at https://pagure.io/fedora-infra/ansible.git.

Start by checking out the easyfix tickets. Tickets marked with this tag are a good place for apprentices to learn how things are setup, and also contribute a fix.

Since apprentices do not have commit access to the Ansible repository, you should make your change, produce a patch with git diff, and attach it to the infrastructure ticket you are working on. It will then be reviewed.