On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:48 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>wrote:

> One intermediate position might be for WMF to distribute virtual machine
> images which can easily be installed on any one of a number of different
> hosting services.  OpenStack/Glance appears to be one such system, although
> ops probably knows better.  The current efforts with puppet and vagrant are
> pretty close to this goal, all that's missing is identifying some
> appropriate hosting services and closing the documentation gap.
>
> This would also allow our existing community of MediaWiki hosting services
> to migrate to the new VM-and-image-based model.
>

I'd rather provide cloud-init scripts with instructions on how to use them.
The cloud init script could pull and run a puppet module, or a salt module,
or etc. etc.. Providing images kind of sucks.

- Ryan
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