On 30/05/2014 3:12 AM, Chris Karlof wrote: > Since both accounts and accounts-latest were showing "baby cannon", it seems > that no one is really paying attention there. I propose we move over to using > danny's servers, i.e., nightly.dev.lcip.org and latest.dev.lcip.org.
:thumbsup: Also, after finally getting a chance to try out the new fxa-dev repository, I am at least 10x happier using it rather than awsbox going forward. (Which is not a slur on awsbox, this project has just grown well beyond its sweet-spot) Nice work Danny! Ryan > On May 20, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Danny Coates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As the scope of FxA projects grow and new repositories are added keeping a >> development environment up to date and functional becomes increasingly more >> difficult. So far we've been able to use awsbox for our various >> *.dev.lcip.org servers, but I feel like we're reaching the limits of their >> convenience for testing the whole integrated system. The latest and nightly >> servers have accumulated various one off hacks to do the things we need them >> to do and I think this would continue as we add more services. >> >> I started a repo a couple weeks ago to start to try and address this issue >> and also allow for more experimentation with our deployment. What I'd like >> to propose here is that we retire our current set of shared *.dev.lcip.org >> awsboxes and use this new thing for our shared dev/test environment. >> >> So what is the new thing an how is it better? >> >> 1. It uses cloudformation to create the all the AWS resources. >> - Its the same way production and stage resources are provisioned >> - It allows for easier server architecture experimentation >> - Stack setup and teardown is easier >> 2. Supporting services are included. >> - Heka, Elasticsearch and Kibana are included >> - Can use the same tools to debug dev as prod >> - Makes developing new Heka filters, Kibana dashboards, etc. easier >> 3. Its provisioned with Ansible. >> - All parts of the installation are documented and repeatable >> - Easy to add new roles and tasks >> - Automatically update server configuration in addition to code >> >> Its not complete but I think it now has all the minimum requirements to to >> serve as our latest and nightly development servers: https, ssh access, >> reliable email, auto-update. >> >> The latest server pulls from github every 10 minutes and is at: >> >> https://latest.dev.lcip.org >> >> To log in with ssh: >> >> ssh [email protected] >> >> Heka and Kibana are at: >> >> http://meta-latest.dev.lcip.org:4352 and http://meta-latest.dev.lcip.org:9199 >> >> The repo is: >> >> https://github.com/dannycoates/fxa-dev >> >> The readme has some basic info on the AWS setup. For a deep dive look at the >> roles and aws directories. >> >> >> Please have a look and share any feedback :) >> >> >> -- >> Danny Coates >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev-fxacct mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
