[CentralOH] Kokki, or, Server Management

[Issac Kelly]

Cool, thanks Morgan.

Yeah, I was thinking that at least the beginning stages could be done pretty
easily with fabric and [libcloud][1]

Austin, do you have any words of wisdom here?

[1]: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Morgan Goose <morgan.goose at gmail.com>wrote:

> Issac,
>
> Interestingly enough, that project was started in the #fabric room on
> freenode
> and has a room a few months ago IIRC.  It's utalizing fabric as it's
> underlying
> communication library, and ends up being a loose set of functions to
> "organize"
> some fabric stuff into good bits for package management.
>
> I've not used it, and most likely wont, as I feel a one time start script
> like
> that can be implemented with a good use of a cloud api provider, and some
> simple lines of bash for the apt-gets.
>
> If you pop into either channel I think bitprophet (the main fabric dev)
> uses
> some cloud'y stuff. And the kokki dev may be lurking in there, or at lease
> in
> the #kokki room.
>
> goose
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Issac Kelly wrote:
> >    I finally got all of my new projects switched over to fabric + git for
> >    deployment. �The big missing piece now is actually setting up the box.
> >    There seem to be a few big projects in the FOSS world (Puppet and Chef
> are
> >    quite popular in ruby) and then there's this outlier that, even from
> my
> >    Python friends I've heard noting about ([1]http://samuelks.com/kokki/
> )
> >    have any of you used this? �What do you use for deployment management
> or
> >    server management in general?
> >
> >    My needs are generally very very basic:
> >
> >    ) Fire up an instance of Ubuntu (Latest LTS) on
> [Rackspace|AWS|Slicehost]
> >    ) Add general dev tools (build-essential, git-core, svn, mercurial
> >    ) Add my Python toolchain (python, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, pil)
> >    ) Add Postgres [sometimes GDAL, PostGIS ...]
> >    ) Add�psycopg2
> >    ) Add nginx // supervisord
> >    ) (And now, run fab locally to deploy something)
> >    I would like to automate everything except the last step
> >
> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. http://samuelks.com/kokki/
>
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