[RFC] moving services to OpenShift

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 07/09/2012 06:49 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> 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
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