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
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