Ok, thanks for that. I'm definitely willing to devote some development time to this as it would certainly be of use within my own institution as well.
Personally I feel that some sort of GUI assisted wizard for setup of each VM may be the best approach. Perhaps not even so much a full VM, but a GUI install package that one can apt-get or yum install, which get's you up and running with an installation wizard running on an arbitrary port. This then guides you through a configuration process, such as setting up a new CAS installation, upgrading an existing installation, joining a cluster etc. This then in turn runs yum install/apt-get to install all the necessary middleware such as MySQL/Tomcat etc. The next stage of the installation being the creation on a Maven overlay with the users specific configurations pre generated from the install wizard. Then finally a mvn package install of the overlay and deployed to Tomcat. Paul On 9 Nov 2011, at 18:24, Aaron Fuleki wrote: > Paul, > > Yes, this has been discussed before, and yes, a lot of people are interested, > there just hasn't been a lot of free time amongst the experienced devs to > work on it, I believe. > > https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=13056017 > > -Aaron > > --------------------------------- > Aaron Fuleki > Senior Web Architect > Denison University > 740.587.5752 > --------------------------------- > > On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Vitty, Paul wrote: > >> Apologies if this has been asked before, but here goes. I'm looking to see >> if there would be any interest from the community in creating an appliance >> distribution of CAS. Essentially what I was thinking was a packaged virtual >> machine running some distribution of linux with an already working version >> of CAS setup on it. >> >> Furthermore, the development of an installation GUI which allows the user to >> configure authentication adaptors, attribute repositories, clustering, etc >> allowing the institution to get a stable production quality version of CAS >> up and running quickly. >> >> Just a thought and obviously needs more scoping, but if there was >> considerable demand I'd be willing to aid development. >> >> Thanks >> Paul Vitty >> >> Apache/MySQL Engineer >> University of Ulster >> >> ________________________________ >> >> This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the >> use of the addressee and may contain information which is covered by legal, >> professional or other privilege. 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