Subversion For Administrators Training Course
Node ID: 3008
Duration
7 hours
Requirements
- Users knowledge of working with Subversion
- General system administration experience in the operating system(s)
- Apache server basic knowledge
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| Date | Venue | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-04 09:30 | London, Westbourne Grove | From 620 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-06-14 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 620 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-06-20 09:30 | Manchester | From 620 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-07-02 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 620 to 890 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-07-25 09:30 | Manchester | From 558 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-07-25 09:30 | London, Westbourne Grove | From 558 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-08-16 09:30 | Manchester | From 558 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-08-21 09:30 | London, Westbourne Grove | From 558 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-08-22 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 558 to 801 GBP Check! | ||
| 2012-09-10 09:30 | Bristol, Temple Gate | From 558 to 801 GBP Check! |
Overview
This course is for system administrators who need to install and maintain Subversion software and Subversion repository.
This aim of this course is to widen the skills of system administrators so that they can administer Subversion repository servers and provide the best advice of the practices of Subversion.
Course features a lot of exercises on CentOS v5 virtual machines.
Course Outline
SVN server setup
- install the package and all dependences
- to create one repository or several repositories with sensible location considerations, initial import, migrate from CVS and other version control systems
Fine-tune all kinds of access schemes, including http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, specially to consider following
- how to configure apache modules
- to use ssh environment variables to shorten svn+ssh:// urls
- to define proper user databases and design complex access control list or authorization patterns
- to integrate with LDAP / domain controller / MySQL / PAM / etc for user authentications
Configure sensible repository layout
- each sub-project has complete tree structure such as trunk, branches and tags, suitable for sub-projects are inclusive and self-contained, not much inter-dependence, APIs of each sub-projects are stable and mature
- all modules exist on trunk / branches and tags, suitable for a logically compact project, there exists strong coupling among modules
- difference and benefits
Backup strategy and disaster recovery
- backup strategy, including: native method with svn sync, third-party tools such as rsync, hot copy
- whole reposity backup vs each revision checkout or dump
- disaster recovery
- permanently remove files and history
Basic knowledge about managing repositories
- normal working cycle with subversion (hand-on practices)
- create branches and tages
- create locks and other controls
- design client-side tools and integrate them with IDEs
- choose and configure repository viewing facilities
- set general user policies, including set subversion hooks for those hard restrictions
- design automatic check-out and build or compilation, and even automatic testing
