On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:48 PM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.orgwrote:
One intermediate position might be for WMF to distribute virtual machine images which can easily be installed on any one of a number of different hosting services. OpenStack/Glance appears to be one such system, although ops probably knows better. The current efforts with puppet and vagrant are pretty close to this goal, all that's missing is identifying some appropriate hosting services and closing the documentation gap.
This would also allow our existing community of MediaWiki hosting services to migrate to the new VM-and-image-based model.
I'd rather provide cloud-init scripts with instructions on how to use them. The cloud init script could pull and run a puppet module, or a salt module, or etc. etc.. Providing images kind of sucks.
- Ryan