[ubuntu-cloud] Ubuntu cloud use case

[Mark Mims]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:22:44PM -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> Hi Bruno! Thanks for letting us know about this, I think there's some
> places here where Ubuntu Server can help you out, I'm also CCing in
> the juju mailing list:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I work for a startup based in London that offers online energy efficiency
> > management tools. At the moment, we have everything hosted on a VPS running
> > Debian in Germany. When I mean everything, it's a development stack (django
> > + PostgreSQL), a production stack, Jenkins, JIRA and Sentry instances and
> > all sorts of bits and bobs.
> 
> Mark Mims is in the process of finishing off the django charm. It's
> here right now:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mark-mims/charms/precise/summit/trunk
> 
> And is currently misnamed  as "summit" since it started off as
> something for summit.ubuntu.com but has transformed itself, but
> eventually this will probably become the "django charm". We have
> charms for Postgres and Jenkins already, so it looks like we have most
> of you covered other than JIRA and Sentry.
> 
> JIRA looks like it would be a straightforward charm, starting by
> following this: http://goo.gl/HnnkO
> 
> And there appears to be plenty of Sentry software that could use a
> charm, depending on what you use.
> 
> > My first question is: where do I start? First I need a cloud service
> > provider so what should I look for when I talk to providers in order to
> > confirm that they can support what I want to do? Is it enough that they
> > support OpenStack or is there more to it?
> 
> Your plan look pretty good, thanks for looking into juju for this.
> 
> OpenStack support outta be enough. The juju openstack provider is
> finished now and we know it works. Whether you can just magically plop
> in any Openstack provider from that list into environments.yaml and
> have it magically start working is something I'd be hesitant to say
> would "Just Work". Though I think it'd be useful to try some of them
> out and figure out how well it does work. One thing I've discovered is
> that each OpenStack provider might be running on a different version
> of OpenStack than another one, or they might turn on some things that
> other providers don't, and so on.
> 
> Since Juju can use multiple providers you can also prototype on AWS or
> HP Cloud while you contemplate which OpenStack provider to use (HP
> Cloud is Openstack-based), the choice is up to you.
> 
> So it sounds to me like really the only thing you'd need to work out
> would be charming JIRA and the Sentry bits, I would certainly _love_
> to have you banging on the Django, Postgres, and Jenkins charms;
> you're the target audience for these charms so we need you tell us
> which bits you need, which parts need fixing, and so on.
Please by all means help with Django!!  I'm not sure what extra features
/ connections we should add to it at this stage and need input from
peeps who're running it in production.

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