I’m the Lead Linux Sysadmin for a prominent web 2.0 company.

Most Web 2.0 companies are all built around the same technologies: Linux, mysql, memcache, tomcat, Apache, php, high-availability (ha-linux), mysql replication, load-balancing, …

How come there isn’t some Linux distribution out there already that I can just deploy, configure and turn off what I don’t need? How come every time I install a Linux distro, I have to configure it the same way for my enterprise, or make my own kickstart script or make a custom distro myself, or write cfengine and post-install scripts to do it all? These platforms are so common amongst all of the new-ish web 2.0 companies, I’m mega-suprised why this type of distro isn’t already in existance somewhere. I could build one, but like I said, I’m the Lead sysadmin for a dot-com company, so I don’t have any time to do this.

Can one of you Mtn Dew swilling, no-sleep getting, no girlfriend, wife or children having, college kids out there whip this up for me tonight so I can come into work tomorrow and just install it everywhere and get some peace of mind so I can do some of my more lengthy tasks on my to-do list?

Oh, and throw some off-site backup stuff in there as well. :)

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