Re: [RFC] moving services to OpenShift

On 07/09/2012 06:49 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Some of us have been having backchannel discussions of the idea of > moving oVirt services to OpenShift, specifically: > > * WordPress (www.ovirt.org)[1] > * MediaWiki (wiki.ovirt.org) [2] I have never used OpenShift so I have no idea how well these will run.

> > In the future I'd want to add Jenkins and mailman to that list, > when/if they become possible/available. > > The main idea is to off-load the infrastructure work - maintaining the > server, network, OS, dependencies, etc. We'd have an easy way to share > responsibilities to the services using git - OpenShift projects are > maintained in git repositories, and when you commit a change, it > updates the live website. We'd then be able to take in fixes as pull > requests, or give direct key'd access to some people to work on parts > of the infrastructure. I manage many of my internal system using git. It works well as long as you aren't updating the system from other sources at the same time. > > What are some other reasons this is a good idea? The git part is very powerful. It makes management task much easier. > > What are some considerations that might make this a bad idea? One possible issue is cost. The other question is what limits are there to using the wordpress or mediawiki this way. Since I have never used the platform not sure what these limits are. > > We can discuss in tomorrow's meeting, but should make the decision on > this mailing list. > > - - Karsten > > [1] https://github.com/openshift/wordpress-example > [2] https://github.com/openshift/mediawiki-example > - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com > @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v. gpg: AD0E0C41 > > _______________________________________________ > Infra mailing list > Infra(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra _______________________________________________ Infra mailing list Infra(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra