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/


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