[RFC] moving services to OpenShift

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 07/09/2012 09:10 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> 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.
One concern is the fact that we will need a plan to move 
www.ovirt.org/wiki to wiki.ovirt.org

Thanks
Robert
>>
>> 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
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