[Mapbender_dev] Re: [SAC] Ad hoc VM Proposal

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> We had an extensive discussion on IRC today about some conflicting needs.
> 
> The Mapbender projects would like somewhere they can host development
> versions of Mapbender to show new capabilities and to facilitate
> development.
> 
> It was discussed that we might put this on the ProjectsVM, but it was felt
> that this might put the whole VM at risk as "not ready for prime time"
> code would be running on a server with other relatively mission critical
> services (like project web sites).
> 
> It was also discussed that we might provide one or more telascience blades
> for such purposes for Mapbender or other projects.  This is plausible,
> though
> currently we are a bit stymied with getting them reinitialized.
> 
> We also discussed creating a project specific VM for the Mapbender project,
> as was done for QGIS.  But it was felt that it set a bad precident to
> provide project specific VMs for what seems like a less than compelling
> need particularly since we can't afford to issue most projects their own
> VMs on our available hardware.  The resources are not sufficient.
> 
> The compromise Howard, Chris and I came to was to establish an "ah-hoc"
> VM at OSU OSL which anyone in the telascience ldap group (ie. anyone who
> can login to the Projects VM or the blades) could use for development,
> and demonstration purposes with the understanding that the VM might not
> be all that stable.  SAC would not provide any special support on this
> VM, and sudo access would be provided fairly freely (while we are trying
> to be cautious about that on the Projects VM).
> 
> Does anyone in SAC have an objection to such a VM being setup?   If I don't
> hear any stringent objections, I'll likely try and issue a request to
> OSU OSL
> soon.  Once created, I'll take care of initial setup and documentation
> in the
> wiki.
> 
> Best regards,

Frank,
thanks for this excellent summary and we are more than happy to go down
this road and see how it works out.

Please let this list know when the machine will be ready and how to
access it. Ideally it would also authenticate against the OSGeo LDAP so
that we can use the same credentials.

Thanks a lot,
Arnulf

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Arnulf Christl

Exploring Space, Time and Mind
http://arnulf.us

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