Offer a turn-key virtual machine image

[pjf]

It would be really awesome to have a turn-key virtual machine image people can use. Then people can just use AWS/Azure/OpenStack/Whatever to get running.

Bonus points if this includes a web interface for configuration. (Which also makes a lot of OAuth dances easier to acheive)

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[Pythagory]

Is there still interest in this, or has it been superseded by the work done on getting a docker container up? I'm working on setting up my own exobrain on EC2 and would happily export an image post-step-2/pre-individual setup, but I'm not sure where to host it.

[pjf]

@Pythagory : Oh! For me, this has been mostly superseded by the docker file, since that essentially does the same thing using the latest buzzwords, and I hope is something we can automate the building of whenever we see a tagged release.

Having said that, if you have an EC2 setup guide (or any documentation, really), then I would love to have it. Either in the exobrain wiki (which is presently unused), as a pull request to the README (which is maybe getting a bit long), or as a pull request to a Exobrain::Setup::EC2.pod file, which means it'll end up being nicely formatted on a number of hosts, as well as being locally readable with perldoc. :)

[Pythagory]

@pjf I figured as much, all the cool kids are using Docker now. Documentation for EC2 deployment (or any kind of cloud deployment) isn't terribly interesting, as the process is essentially the same as installing locally.

Rather than forgetting the whole idea, though, I'm taking a shot at setting up the wiki based on the readme as I have downtime at work and will try writing up a page with some information and resources about cloud providers.