I'm not an expert with configuring a cluster, but I've read good things
about "Ansible". Do we have any ansible "experts" among us? I think, this
tool is a good fit because it describes "goals" and it's extensible with
custom modules (written in Python). My uneducated feeling is that we should
really look  into it …

-- harald


On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:13 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I went to a talk by the TravisCI CEO a while ago and one advice that
> struck
> > a chord was: If you have to log into your server you are doing it wrong.
> Its
> > of course OK for a one-off machine to debug / play around with, but it
> just
> > makes administration a time sink. Its better to just erase an instance
> and
> > recreate it from your orchestration tool. Solves the problem of
> documenting
> > *what* you changed as a side effect.
> >
> > On that note, why not openstack / openshift / kubernetes / ...? Of course
> > you can create and manage kvm images and/or containers by hand, but why
> > reinvent the wheel.
>
> Let's start fresh!  I'm open to any an all ideas for how to setup the
> cluster, and *greatly* appreciated your suggestions.
>
>  -- William
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