Implementing Canvas Open Source
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Christopher Bennell OCAD University
OCAD University
Ontario College of Art & Design University Canadas largest Art & Design University, 135 years old Studio-based Art + Design Undergrad and Graduate Studies Downtown Toronto 4000 Students, 400 Faculty
Canvas Pilot Timeline
Evaluation of home-grown LMS + eLearning environment
February 2011
Canvas pilot: ~7 courses / term September 2011 Campus-wide implementation September 2012
My Courses
Our Canvas Environment
Hardened Gentoo Linux VMs Nginx Passenger MySQL OCFS2 + iSCSI Redis OS Web Server Load Balancer Application server Database Storage Caching
Environment
Application Servers 2
Memory
8GB x 2 = 16GB
Cores
4 x 2 = 8 cores
My Courses Load Test
12000ms
9000ms
6000ms
Before Caching After Caching (Redis)
3000ms
10
20
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40
50
60
Concurrent Requests
Other Tools
Puppet Ruby Enterprise Edition Git Capistrano New Relic System conguration Performance Development Deployment Deployment Monitoring
Automated Deployments
Application Code Capistrano + Git
System Cong Puppet Operating System VM Template
Our Conguration
github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas
Puppet
Automated system conguration Easy deployment of additional nodes for production, development
infrastructure to be checked Allows entirecontrol into version
Maintain system homogeneity
github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas/puppet puppetlabs.com
Puppet Dashboard
Ruby Enterprise Edition
MOAR RAM - reduces memory usage Plays well with Passenger Canvas is very memory intensive
github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas/tuned-ree rubyenterpriseedition.com
Git
Code management - custom modications Deployment - Acts as central code repository for application nodes Git Server - Gitolite
git-scm.com github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
Capistrano
Automated deployment Custom deploy scripts One-step deploy... kind of
github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas/deploy github.com/capistrano/capistrano
New Relic
newrelic.com
Support
GitHub Google Group IRC Canvas Help Center LTI of Magic Issues + bugs Community support Chat with engineers End-user support LTI examples
github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ canvas-lms-users
#canvas-lms on irc.freenode.net
help.instructure.com
lti-examples.heroku.com
Thanks!
Christopher Bennell [email protected]
github.com/christopher-b/ocadu-canvas scribd.com/doc/97940416
