On 06/08/2011 03:44 PM, Bill Traynor wrote: > 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/ > >
Thanks Bill, adding a couple of more links In depth documentation is available in the Ensemble documentation: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs Development resources (source code, bugs, etc) are available in Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ensemble _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
