[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

[meg ford]

Hi Sten,
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:41 AM, meg ford <meg387 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>
Thanks for offering to help out with this! Is there any interest in the LUG
having a hackfest around it? I know that your free time is currently
somewhat limited, but if you do have time it might be cool to have a basic
demo for those who haven't used Ansible before, followed by a few hours of
collaborative work time. How do other people feel about it?

Meg
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