UEC appliance

[Soren Hansen]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:25:52PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> As some of you may know, we intend to offer a proof-of-concept
> reference appliance for use with UEC. There are various challenges
> with regard to persistence in the EC2 paradigm,  which I intend to try
> to deal with shortly. At the moment, however, the reference appliance
> has no concept of persistence, so once you terminate the instance,
> your data is gone, and you start afresh the next time you run it. For
> this reason, we intend to mark this appliance with a bit fat "DEMO -
> NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE".
> 
> This first iteration is based on Mediawiki. Here's what I did:
[...]

This process is now automated. The code to build it currently lives
here[1]:

   http://code.launchpad.net/~soren/+junk/mediawiki-appliance-build

The resulting ubuntu-xen/root.img file is the image you want to bundle
for UEC. For your convenience, you can download it here:

  http://people.canonical.com/~soren/uec-mediawiki-appliance.img.tar.gz

The wiki will be available at

  http://<instance ip>/mediawiki/

The admin user/pasword combo is WikiSysop/demo. The wiki is completely
set up once you start the appliance. No extra configuration is
needed/possible.

Moving it to http://<instance ip>/ instead of http://<instance ip>/mediawiki/
is still to be done (or an appropriate redirect needs to be put in
place).  If someone has done this before, feel free to share
experiences and/or configuration snippets.

We expect this appliance to be available in the appliance store in UEC
around the time of the Ubuntu release candidate coming out.

[1]: This is not nearly as stream-lined as I want it to be. I have a
bunch of VMBuilder improvement that will help substantially that I'll be
filing later today, and hopefully fixing early in the Lucid cycle.

-- 
Soren Hansen                 | 
Lead virtualisation engineer | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.               | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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