Thanks to the rise of SaaS, starting a free software project have never been as easy than now. Yet, the proprietary nature of most services make them quite often inflexible, and therefor unsuitable for some kind of project, thus requiring to deploy your own infrastructure.
However, while lots of documentations exist on the web, most of them are either outdated, incomplete or not suitable, and there is almost no guidance on the best practices for system administration for community project, and what kind of measure are practical and efficient for sysadmins with less time than usual.
So this talk will explore the best practices in term of security and deployment for a project infrastructure, from ssh security to centralized logging and authentication, focusing on the quick wins and explaining what will they bring to the table.
