Re: [Userops] a website manager

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 06:48:37PM +0200, Christophe Siraut wrote:
> Comments and feedback welcome! Do you know of an existing solution or
> ongoing project? Sponsors? Contributors?

I started working on something that looks a lot like what you described.
I hope to have a prototype UI and a some basic recipes in a few weeks.
There should be Summer of Code/Outeachy participant working with me
on this during the northern hemisphere summer.

It's basically a UI for users to add sites (think "vhosts") and
applications to those sites. Each application corresponds to a chef
cookbook which:

- will be applied when users change anything in the configuration
- is part of the tool itself (i.e. no random cookbooks from the internet)
- rely on distribution packages (i.e. no random stuff from the internet)
- makes the cross package configuration and other things that are needed
  for the application to just work.

In principle the idea is to use a distro-agnostic approach but the
initial focus will be Debian because that's my thing. I will love to
have people from other distros helping out and keeping me honest though.

More info:

- GSOC project idea for a student to work adding recipes for configuring
  as many applications as possible:
  https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2015/Projects/AutoConfigWebApps

- code: https://gitlab.com/terceiro/shak

  I'm not really happy with the current name, but since naming things is
  very hard I am prioritizing easier things like actually writing
  it ;-) -- will accept name suggestions

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <address@hidden>

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