[SAC] New Vms w/ Debian 7

[Jeff McKenna]

Is this a good time to remind everyone of the
heavily-used-yet-not-supported AdhocVM?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AdhocVM Several projects rely on this VM
heavily, yet there are no backups etc.  This has been reminded to me
recently by another community member.  So, I'm nudging :)

-jeff



On 2014-05-09, 4:20 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> We're currently stuck in a weird spot with trying to upgrade to Debian
> 7, a relic of the original VM disk layout that doesn't get along with GRUB2.
> 
> The fastest way to get there seems to be to do a new Base VM based on
> debian 7 and clone it. This would be a good idea if we want to start
> making smaller VMs to split apart some services into more isolation.
> On the one hand its more VMs or containers to deal with, on the other it
> might bring happy faces and stability to more things.
> 
> Our other option is some hackery to try and make current Vms upgradeable.
> 
> Currently the only requests I've heard for a new VM is from QGIS who
> wants to remove their cruft from the existing VM by starting fresh
> (since they moved all but 2 sites to another server elsewhere anyways).
> 
> I wouldn't be opposed to some others moving off of Projects in a similar
> manner. We can worry about the main osgeo services separately.
> 
> This of course leaves some questions:
> Who can help setup the new base vm?
> Should we implement puppet or chef, etc to make managing more servers
> easier?
> Should we consider using LXC containers to isolate projects from each
> other on a common kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex