Re: Any interest in a Amazon AMI for Wonder?
Re: Any interest in a Amazon AMI for Wonder?
- Subject: Re: Any interest in a Amazon AMI for Wonder?
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:42:17 -0500
Le 2013-01-10 à 19:03, Paul Hoadley <email@hidden> a écrit :
> Hi Pascal,
>
> On 11/01/2013, at 1:40 AM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if we should build a public AMI (template) on Amazon EC2 that would contains:
>>
>> - CentOS 6.x
>> - The Yum repository for wotaskd/Monitor/the adaptor
>> - RPMForge Yum repository (useful to install software not available from the main CentOS repo)
>> - Postgresql's Yum repository
>> - Jenkins's Yum repository
>
> I would suggest that you don't invest the time doing this, and here's why. Freezing an AMI like this involves a load of arbitrary decisions (e.g., Why CentOS instead of Amazon Linux? Why PostgreSQL instead of MySQL?).
That's why I'm adding the Yum repository, but not actually installing PostgreSQL.
> At each decision, you're carving off a segment of potential users from a base that must already be incredibly small. Say there's still some interest left, though—who is going to keep this current? When a security vulnerability is patched in CentOS, are you going to re-roll this?
From my point of view, everyone should take care of security updates. Like you said, keeping the AMI up to date for everyone update would be a mess. The AMI should only be updated for major SSH or Apache, or when CentOS goes from 6.3 to 6.4 or any major update like this.
> (All these questions are rhetorical, by the way!) The most likely scenario is that in 18 months we've got a repeat of WOlastic on our hands—when that went stale, it took time and effort to kill off, and I haven't checked lately but I think the AMI itself is _still_ available, though the website is dead.
If we do it, it will be bonded to WOCommunity, I don't want something bonded to a business that might go away.
But anyway, the goal is to make it easier to deploy apps. At least with the Yum repository of WOCommunity, it will be much easier.
> Having said all that, if I haven't discouraged you and you're really keen, I can certainly help you do it. :-)
>
>
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> Paul Hoadley
> http://logicsquad.net/
>
>
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