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! 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.
Also if you're interested in hacking on the Ensemble formulas (the
intelligence) that deploys MediaWiki (this one written in bash, but
could be any language you like), that'd be great as well, because again
you're the experts.
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 of-course try to connect your feedback and
answer questions, but it's really much 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. Thanks for your time
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