How are folks feeling about throwing time at a virtual bakeathon? I had some ideas about how this might be possible by building out a virtual network of OpenVPN clients, and hacked together some infrastructure to make it happen: https://vpn.nfsv4.dev/ That network exists today, and any systems that are able to join it can use it to test. There are a number of problems/complications: - the private network is ipv6-only by design to avoid conflicts with overused ipv4 private addresses. - it uses hacked-together PKI to protect the TLS certificates encrypting the connections - some implementations of NFS only run on systems that cannot run OpenVPN software, requiring complicated routing/transalations - it needs to be re-written from bash to something.. less bash. - network latencies restrict testing to function; testing performance doesn't make sense. With the ongoing work on NFS over TLS, my thought now is that if there is interest in standing up permanent infrastructure for testing, then that's probably sustainable way forward. But until implementations mature, its not going to help us host a successful testing event in the near future. So, the second question -- should we instead work towards implementations of NFS over TLS as a way of creating a more permanent testing infrastructure? I am aware that I am leaving out a lot of detail here in order to try to start a conversation and perhaps coalesce momentum. Happy new year! Ben
