Hi everyone, This is Ahmed, I work for Ubuntu helping the cloud community. Ubuntu has been working on some hot technology, that aims to be "apt-get for the cloud"! Basically Install and manage large scale cloud deployments of web applications (and others) with the equivalent ease of "apt-get install". The reason I'm posting this here, is because the very first use-case for this technology (called Ensemble) has been MediaWiki (yaay)! To get a feel for Ensemble, here is how you'd deploy a 4 machine Mediawiki installation DB -> MediaWiki -> memcached -> HAproxy Loadbalancer ----->8--------- # Deploy machines ensemble deploy mysql wiki-db ensemble deploy mediawiki demo-wiki ensemble deploy memcached wiki-cache ensemble deploy haproxy wiki-balancer # Connect them together! ensemble add-relation wiki-db demo-wiki:db ensemble add-relation wiki-cache demo-wiki ensemble add-relation wiki-balancer:reverseproxy demo-wiki:website ----->8--------- Slashdotted? Want to scale out? You'd need something like ensemble add-unit wiki-cache ensemble add-unit demo-wiki Yes, it's that easy! Ensemble takes care of informing MW about the new memcached server just spun up, and informing HAproxy about the new MW...etc! You can view the formula code that does all the magic at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ensemble-composers/principia/oneiric/mediawiki… <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eensemble-composers/principia/oneiric/mediawiki/trunk/files/head:/hooks/> The reason I am contacting you guys, is that you're the MediaWiki experts. I am very interested to get feedback from you on what you think of Ensemble today, what you think it should do tomorrow, and most importantly to help improve the MW formula The main project page is: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/ Ensemble documentation: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs Development resources (source code, bugs, etc) are available in Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ensemble To connect to the Ensemble community, You can subscribe to the mailing list at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ensemble And there's also an active IRC channel: #ubuntu-ensemble @ Freenode If you reply here, I'll try answer questions, but it's better to post Ensemble feedback directly on Ensemble channels (since that's where the devs and formula writers are). In the mean time, if there's any questions or thoughts grab me (kim0 on freenode) right away. I'd love to see more collaboration between the MW community and the Ensemble community to make MW a dream to install/run/manage/scale on the cloud. I am willing to help in any way possible to make this happen. Interested? What next steps do you think we should take? Cheers