Jonathan,
Sounds great.
One phrase I heard a little while back was "Data Center As Code", which
I took to mean as the scripting (of the automation) of the steps to
(re-)build your data center. I've looked it up and I am not so sure what
the phrase actually means.
There is one thing I certainly appreciate and enjoy with the Joyent (I
guess by extension datasets.at?) images is the integrated setup
scripts/install scripts.
With regards to the 'Data Center As Code': I wonder if this is something
that could done in /var/zoneinit/includes/ or some related place? Is
there a coding standard? Could generating safe scripts be done with a
wizard?
I made some custom images years back but they were really an extension
of the base image with pre-populated MariaDB tables for testing so I
didn't delve deeply in that regard.
Either way, thanks for all the hard you (all) do keeping this stuff alive.
Cheers,
Will
On 3/9/17 16:38, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
* On 2017-03-09 at 19:19 GMT, Will Beazley wrote:
Might it make sense to have some middle ground (maybe super-sparse)
image and then have blessed "recipes" by some means (not implying
Chef) and after install get them to their pre-install state?
This is something I have planned, and have rough notes for, mainly
from my own setups of e.g. mail or www or SMB servers. The aim is to
consolidate them into a bunch of HOWTOs on the pkgsrc wiki, with
simple steps to take you from a base or minimal image to a working
production server.
If anyone has written up their own setups then please send them to me
and I'll collate and publish them.
Another thing worth mentioning is that there are third-party image
server such as https://datasets.at/ and it'd be great to see community
supported images that are regularly updated, especially for esoteric
use cases.
Cheers,
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