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Monday, August 21, 2017

How to set up an all open-source IT infrastructure from scratch

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How to set up an all open-source IT infrastructure from scratch

Hypothetical: You need to set up the IT infrastructure (email, file sharing, etc.) for a new company. No restrictions. No legacy application support necessary. How would you do it? What would that ideal IT infrastructure look like?

I decided to sit down and think of my ideal setup — based on quite a few years of being a vice president of engineering at various companies — and document them here. Maybe you’ll find my choices useful; maybe you’ll think I’m crazy. Either way, these are good things to consider for any organization. 

Run services on your own servers 

The first thing I’m going to decide on, right up front, is to self-host as many services as I possibly can. 

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