[Discuss] Ansible for chicagolug.org services

[sheila miguez]

Writing ansible playbooks for things could be fun. I've only done one and
still have a lot of learning to do.

I wrote stuff for deploying pyvideo.org. I'd like to learn more and improve
it.
https://github.com/pyvideo/richard-ansible

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:

>
> 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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