Hi all,
Today I nearly finished porting the installation procedure to an Ansible [1] format, and I'm using CentOS. I've got a few little things to finish (like the Apache host definitions) but the apps are all running.
Is anyone else using CentOS?
Is anyone else using Ansible?
If so, I'll spend the time to tidy this up a bit and offer it back to the ALA team, and open the discussion if Ansible would be a suitable format for deployment going forward - my personal impression is that is a good tool for this, and would allow easier and more flexible deployments.
I am also using Vagrant [2] to bring up the virtual hosts on my laptop for testing. I could commit that back too, since it allows a complete working installation for testing with 2 commands:
$ vagrant up
$ ansible-playbook -i vagrant site.yml --private-key /Users/tim/.ssh/id_dsa
I'd be interested in hearing how others are doing. I've run in to a few niggly issues, but mainly because I am deviating from the procedure, in order to understand it better.
Thanks all,
Tim
[1] http://www.ansible.com/home
[2] http://www.vagrantup.com/
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Tim Robertson - GBIF Head of Informatics - trobertson(a)gbif.org
Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/
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Hi all
Thanks to ALA and GBIF for putting this together. I truly believe this can
be an important initiative.
I express our interest in participating of a consortium to get funding to
make this happen.
Best regards
Antonio
Antonio Mauro Saraiva
Professor Titular, Escola Politécnica da USP. Presidente da Comissão de
Pesquisa
Vice-chefe, Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Sistemas Digitais
Coordenador, Núcleo de Apoio a Pesquisa em Computação e Biodiversidade
(BioComp)
Laboratório de Automação Agrícola (LAA)
Full Professor, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Politécnica, President of
the Research Committee
Vice-head, Computer and Digital Systems Engineering Department
Coordinator, Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing (BioComp)
Laboratory of Agricultural Automation (LAA)
tel. +55-11-3091 9088 fax: +55-11-3091 5294
saraiva <mailto:saraiva@usp.br> @usp.br
<http://www.laa.pcs.usp.br> www.laa.pcs.usp.brwww.biocomp.org.br
