[QA] Proposal for Zurich Hackathon: Production-like Vagrant

[aude]

Probably something I can help with

For wikidata development and testing, I am puppetizing my wikifarm setup.

It aims to replicate setup of any wmf wiki, with all the extensions,
config, elastic search, localisation cache done the same, much as possible.

Feel free to poke me

Katie
On Jan 22, 2014 5:43 PM, "Arthur Richards" <arichards at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I've talked a bit with a number of you over the last year or so about a
> dream I have of a Vagrant instance that replicates, as much as possible,
> our production environment (like betalabs, but your very own personal,
> portable, betalabs). Having something like this would be tremendously
> valuable. It would mean:
>
> * Getting a new developer up and running to start writing
> production-worthy code would be trivial (at least in terms of setting up a
> dev environment)
> ** This could be huge at hackathons and on-boarding new engineers
> * It would allow us all to test our code against a production-like
> environment WITHOUT needing to first merge code and then test on betalabs
> * It would eradicate (or come close to eradicating) the "oh, it worked on
> my machine, why doesn't it work on yours/betalabs/production/etc" scenario
> * It would get us closer to a unified environment for easier browser and
> unit testing (and perhaps in the future, integration/api testing)
> * And more!
>
> My intuition says this is doable, given that so much of production has
> been puppetized. What do you all think? Would you be interested in working
> on something like this at the Zurich Hackathon and/or beyond? It would
> likely require buy-in/support from someone from ops and platform as well,
> but I wanted to run it by you all before taking it further.
>
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