On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 08:36, Ahmed Kamal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is Ahmed, I work for Ubuntu helping the cloud community. Ubuntu has > been working on some hot technology, that aims to be "apt-get for the > cloud"! Basically Install and manage large scale cloud deployments of > web applications (and others) with the equivalent ease of "apt-get > install". The reason I'm posting this here, is because the very first > use-case for this technology (called Ensemble) has been MediaWiki (yaay)! > > To get a feel for Ensemble, here is how you'd deploy a 4 machine > Mediawiki installation > DB -> MediaWiki -> memcached -> HAproxy Loadbalancer > ----->8--------- > # Deploy machines > ensemble deploy mysql wiki-db > ensemble deploy mediawiki demo-wiki > ensemble deploy memcached wiki-cache > ensemble deploy haproxy wiki-balancer > # Connect them together! > ensemble add-relation wiki-db demo-wiki:db > ensemble add-relation wiki-cache demo-wiki > ensemble add-relation wiki-balancer:reverseproxy demo-wiki:website > ----->8--------- > Slashdotted? Want to scale out? You'd need something like > ensemble add-unit wiki-cache > ensemble add-unit demo-wiki > > Yes, it's that easy! The reason I am contacting you guys, is that you're > the MediaWiki experts. I am very interested to get feedback from you on > what you think of Ensemble today, what you think it should do tomorrow. > Also if you're interested in hacking on the Ensemble formulas (the > intelligence) that deploys MediaWiki (this one written in bash, but > could be any language you like), that'd be great as well, because again > you're the experts. > > To connect to the Ensemble community, You can subscribe to the mailing > list at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ensemble > And there's also an active IRC channel: > #ubuntu-ensemble @ Freenode > > If you reply here, I'll of-course try to connect your feedback and > answer questions, but it's really much better to post Ensemble feedback > directly on Ensemble channels (since that's where the devs and formula > writers are). In the mean time, if there's any questions or thoughts > grab me (kim0 on freenode) right away. Thanks for your time
Providing a link to your project page would have been useful: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
