My work is running a fair amount of Ubuntu servers.
We have 6 Test servers and around 30 Production server, all of which are headless VMware images.
We have a "real" Windows Sysadmin that does all of the ESXi administration of the images as well as standard networking type things. I used real in quotes above because I am our GNU/Linux admin, but I don't have any formal training. I'm just a software developer that happens to know a fair amount about Linux. Most of the servers are LAMP stacks, but we have a few dedicated MySQL servers as well as a few video servers. I'm the only one at my office that knows anything about Linux, so almost all of the system administration for the non-Windows servers comes to me, which I'm fine with.
I am, however, teaching another developer and another real system administrator how to be an effective Linux admin. They are not all too comfortable working in a shell, yet. We have much of the basics down, but they are still learning. My employer was inquiring about using the Ubuntu Landscape servers so that they other Sysadmins could admin the servers without having to touch the terminal. We've looked at PhpMyAdmin and a few other tools, but work wanted me to look into the possibly of using the Landscape servers as a possible solution. I don't believe the money would be issue, if it was they probably wouldn't have asked.
Do any of you have any experience rooting your own Landscape server(s)?
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