Ubuntu Server Guide updates suggested by commenters

Wed Feb 9 08:58:31 UTC 2022

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 8:31 PM Bryce Harrington
<bryce.harrington at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Christian,
>
> Following your request at today's server roadmap meeting, here is a list
> of pages from the Ubuntu Server Guide with comments / questions /
> suggestions from community contributors that appear to not yet be
> addressed.  I've omitted pages that had comments that appear to have
> already been addressed.

Thank you so much!
I've added this list and a session for it to our upcoming sprint and
hope to get through all of those in that week.
If not we can at least exit with some well defined action items for
the more complex cases.

> Ubuntu Server Guide - Pages with comments needing reviewed
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> ### Server Software ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/databases-postgresql/11516
>   - Copyedit suggestions
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/logging-monitoring-and-alerting/19151/10
>   - Copyedit suggestions
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/nagios-and-munin/11326
>   - Copyedit suggestions
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mail-introduction/11324
>   - Copyedit suggestions
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mail-postfix/11325
>   - Several suggestions/comments for overall doc improvement
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/proxy-servers-squid/11511
>   - Question/suggestion on 18.04 compatibility
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-ldap-with-tls/11578/4
>   - Couple questions with answers, either need incorporated into doc or
>     resolved as solved.
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-iscsi/11572
>   - Sample contents need updated for >= hirsute
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-kerberos/11331/2
>   - Instructions are unclear/incomplete compared with other distros'
>     documentation, so page needs expanded/clarified.
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-kerberos-with-openldap-backend/15356
>   - Typo needs fixed
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-nfs/11571
>   - Suggested cleanups
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-openssh/11896
>   - rbasak requests adding docs on FIDO2 keys
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-openvpn/11894/10
>   - A couple copyedit suggestions/questions
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/service-sssd/11579
>   - Question/suggestion (but maybe should be a bug report??)
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/tools-nagios/11903
>   - Bad links
>   - Needs updated for 20.04
>
>
> ### Samba ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/samba-active-directory/11893/3
>   - Broken link
>   - Question on backends
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/samba-domain-controller/11892/5
>   - Bad links
>   - Question on whether samba-tool is worth mentioning
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/samba-securing/11891
>   - Bad link
>
>
> ### General Packaging ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/package-management/11908/7
>   - Typo
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/creating-a-software-bill-of-materials-sbom/25519
>   - Suggestion with improved script to do the task
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/upgrade-introduction/11576/2
>   - Questions/suggestions
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kernel-crash-dump/11575
>   - Question on kdump
>
>
> ### Network ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-introduction/11875/2
>   - Suggested revision needs incorporated
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-configuration/11876/5
>   - Suggestion about omission in example config
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/openvswitch-dpdk/13085
>   - Bad hyperlink
>
>
> ### Security ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/security-certificates/11885/4
>   - Andreas has already responded, but sounds like there may be some
>     followup work to standardize documentation of cert installation to
>     avoid fragmented information across the manual.
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/installing-a-root-ca-certificate-in-the-trust-store/25020
>   - Request for instructions on removing CA certs from trust store
>
>
> ### LXD / LXC ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/containers-lxd/11525
>   - Some simple lxd UX suggestions needing incorporated
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/containers-lxc/11526/4
>   - Several suggestions for bringing this more up to date
>
>
> ### HA ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-ha-pacemaker-resource-agents-supportability/15729/9
>   - Christian/Rafael discussion, might have some remaining unresolved
>     points?
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-ha-pacemaker-fence-agents-supportability/15768/6
>   - Christian/Rafael discussion, might have some remaining unresolved
>     points?
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-ha-drbd/11314/2
>   - Suggestion about transitional package rename
>
>
> ### Installer ###
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introduction/11322/17
>   - PDF not updating
>   - Missing screenshots in PDF
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/configuring-storage-in-the-server-installer/16691
>   - Issue with grub boot installation behavior
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/netbooting-the-server-installer-on-amd64/16620/6
>   - Document is unfinished / incomplete / inaccurate
>   - Broken links
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/netbooting-the-live-server-installer-via-uefi-pxe-on-arm-aarch64-arm64-and-x86-64-amd64/19240/2
>   - Question about mentioning external reference
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/automated-server-installs/16612
>   - Bunch of questions/suggestions.  mwhudson has already
>     answered/handled many of the older ones, but a 2nd pair of eyes
>     might catch more.
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/automated-server-install-quickstart/16614/37
>   - Bunch of questions/suggestions, mostly unanswered so far.
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/automated-server-install-reference/16613/21
>   - Bunch of questions/suggestions, half unanswered so far.
>
> * https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/automated-server-install-schema/16615
>   - Question about validating hand-edited schemas
>

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd