[RFC] moving services to OpenShift

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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On 07/11/2012 09:04 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 09:10 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:

>>> I have never used OpenShift so I have no idea how well these
>>> will run.

It has a model similar to other platform services (PaaS):

1. Creating an app starts a local git repo
2. Drop code (e.g. MediaWiki + configurations) in to the git repo
directory
3. Commit and push changes
4. Live app is updated

We can then take the git repo, host it for ourselves at
gerrit.ovirt.org, and call that the canonical. Then other people can
assist Infra through patches or pull requests directly in Gerrit. One
of the Infra folks makes changes by pulling the latest from Gerrit and
pushing it up to the app.

Where the configuration includes passwords, we may have to get clever.
One idea is to use variables that are replaced with a bash(?) script.
Anyone on Infra would have access to the variables file (in private
git on the various servers), and would run the script to replace the
variables before pushing to OpenShift. (I have no idea if this design
would work, but something would.)

>> One concern is the fact that we will need a plan to move 
>> www.ovirt.org/wiki to wiki.ovirt.org

I'm presuming we can protect the existing inbound links from going to
404 by using clever mod_rewrite/mod_redirect?

- - Karsten
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