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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
