On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:22:44PM -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Hi Bruno! Thanks for letting us know about this, I think there's some > places here where Ubuntu Server can help you out, I'm also CCing in > the juju mailing list: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I work for a startup based in London that offers online energy efficiency > > management tools. At the moment, we have everything hosted on a VPS running > > Debian in Germany. When I mean everything, it's a development stack (django > > + PostgreSQL), a production stack, Jenkins, JIRA and Sentry instances and > > all sorts of bits and bobs. > > Mark Mims is in the process of finishing off the django charm. It's > here right now: > https://code.launchpad.net/~mark-mims/charms/precise/summit/trunk > > And is currently misnamed as "summit" since it started off as > something for summit.ubuntu.com but has transformed itself, but > eventually this will probably become the "django charm". We have > charms for Postgres and Jenkins already, so it looks like we have most > of you covered other than JIRA and Sentry. > > JIRA looks like it would be a straightforward charm, starting by > following this: http://goo.gl/HnnkO > > And there appears to be plenty of Sentry software that could use a > charm, depending on what you use. > > > My first question is: where do I start? First I need a cloud service > > provider so what should I look for when I talk to providers in order to > > confirm that they can support what I want to do? Is it enough that they > > support OpenStack or is there more to it? > > Your plan look pretty good, thanks for looking into juju for this. > > OpenStack support outta be enough. The juju openstack provider is > finished now and we know it works. Whether you can just magically plop > in any Openstack provider from that list into environments.yaml and > have it magically start working is something I'd be hesitant to say > would "Just Work". Though I think it'd be useful to try some of them > out and figure out how well it does work. One thing I've discovered is > that each OpenStack provider might be running on a different version > of OpenStack than another one, or they might turn on some things that > other providers don't, and so on. > > Since Juju can use multiple providers you can also prototype on AWS or > HP Cloud while you contemplate which OpenStack provider to use (HP > Cloud is Openstack-based), the choice is up to you. > > So it sounds to me like really the only thing you'd need to work out > would be charming JIRA and the Sentry bits, I would certainly _love_ > to have you banging on the Django, Postgres, and Jenkins charms; > you're the target audience for these charms so we need you tell us > which bits you need, which parts need fixing, and so on. Please by all means help with Django!! I'm not sure what extra features / connections we should add to it at this stage and need input from peeps who're running it in production.
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