I honestly don’t know if this is the wise approach. I found this trhead on moodle forums: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96607
And a bit more searching it looks like this is possible: https://www.paradisosolutions.com/blog/moodle-multi-tenancy/
And on Moodle docs: https://docs.moodle.org/38/en/Multi-tenancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbJwSzHSJKk
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Great! BBB would really be an improvement.
Why multi-tenancy? Nethserver doesn’t support multi-tenancy. To reach it you can always have more instances.
Wouldn’t it be better for a school to be independant? What advantages/synergies do you see when having more schools in one BBB or moodle?
There is no need for NethServer to support multi tenancy if the application (IE BBB and/or Moodle) supports it.
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That’s basically right.
What if we want to use the LDAP/AD userbase or mailserver which does not support it?
Why do we need it?
Honestly I am not a big fan of multi-tenancy, it’s more a reseller thing than it does improve technology IMO.
Hi Markus
Our user oneitonitram (Martin spelt backwards, see the end…) happens to be in the provider business and want’s to provide european class service to african schools.
Tough work, but I support the idea - and even helped him set up Zabbix monitoring. Not that easy, even I’ve never dealt with a distributed hosting network for a provider…
My 2 cents
Andy
PS: you were meant too, with my comment at Proxmox HA chat!
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I support helping schools too and I really appreciate the work of @oneitonitram
I am afraid of the technical solution because
- Nethserver just doesn’t support multi-tenancy. We’d need a base to collect all data.
- Nethserver is more a gateway/server than a datacenter as regards scalability, see Installation of Captive portal - #12 by giacomo
And besides the technical things:
Not All schools have a qualified IT admin stuff, multi tenancy helps us to be able to mange those tasks for multiple institution, Though i was not suggesting multi tenancy for Nethserver, as it does not support it. Though it would be awesome if it did.
Each school can have its own NEthserver instance, but not BBButon because it will be expensive for us to provide bbbutton server for each school. This is considering i can install BBButon on a NEthsever instance.
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I don’t know if it’s possible to do it completely without having people in place that at least know some basics. I think it’s about training (maybe webinar over bbb) too.
Nethserver provides an easy-to-use interface with delegation possibility. If you train them they can manage it themselves giving you more resources to support more schools.
If the schools get a physical server you may virtualize BBB when a native install does not work.
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on the BBB website they do not recommend using a virtual machine, has anyone used BBB on a server that is virtualised without any issue?
You managed to installed it? I try getting screenshots, or a demo for it, couldn’t get…
the install instructions i saw are not clear.
Yes workable, now with a trick to postfix, I need to talk if I could push some fix or I make a custom-template
Need to check if I try the multi domain or I stay with the mono domain
For now each list is :list1@domain.com list2@domain.com
In theory I could have list1@domain1 list3@domain2 but Nethserver does not handle well and I worry to need big changes inside postfix that I do not want to maintain
why is everyone on this community always worrying about maintenance. and how can we solve that issue?
Can I be honest ?
sure,
go ahead
Ok I think I got the multi domain, no much hard, I need to create a POC and propose change to postfix master.cf & main.cf
All is time matter, I have a life, a family, two jobs, unfortunately a hobby that I cannot satisfy now because corona virus (moutain bike), and any lines of code I write is done/maintained on my time.
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Are you gonna to maintain any package of the community?
I am not. Therefore, i do not hurry or press anyone (except Nethesis Guys) on any kind of bug, issue, feature…
(IPv6… )
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the rhythm is insane ATM 
I hope to be polite enough for a french Monsieur…
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Great/ anthing to test at the moment
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