[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

[Jim Campbell]

On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 06:42 AM, meg ford wrote:
> 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

This sounds great to me. : ) I think that what Sten suggests could make
our site / services more hackable and interesting for people to work on
/ contribute to. I am okay with doing pull requests and such (which is
how we'd manage things once we're up and running), and also like Meg's
idea of a LUG infrastructure hackfest of sorts.

Jim


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