[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

meg ford meg387 at gmail.com
Fri May 29 11:41:03 UTC 2015


Forwarding from the old list:
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:32 AM, sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I've been talking with Jim offline about this, but we wanted to talk about
> it on-list before making any changes.
>
> Jim can correct me here, but I understand everything under chicagolug.org
> runs on a single Ubuntu instance on Rackspace. Since Rackspace is being so
> generous to the LUG, I'd like to split that out into multiple hosts, and do
> some HA and redundancy, and add at least one new service.
>
> I'd also like to build it with Ansible, so it can be rebuilt from scratch
> easily if needed.
>
> I've been thinking I'd like to do an Ansible presentation for the LUG,
> since I've been doing a lot with Ansible at work, particularly for
> OpenShift V3 (v3 is all built and managed with ansible, see
> https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/), but if we re-build
> chicagolug.org with Ansible, we can do something more collaborative and
> do it via the email list and pull requests.
>
> What if we started with 1 new service, I'm thinking http://getkaiwa.com/
> - this would run on a new Rackspace instance and point to the existing
> Prosody server.
>
> I'd work with Jim and Meg to put together a new repo under the chicagolug
> github account, and we could do PRs to put together an Ansible role for
> Kaiwa and a playbook to create the Rackspace instance.
>
> From there, we could add more roles and more playbooks and eventually get
> all the chicagolug services managed in Git.
>
> Any interest? Any thoughts?
>
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