Well played sean. Well played. One of our strengths is our existing security capabilities and the inherent flexibility to connect to an organizations existing authorization schemes. But providing a reasonably secure demonstration system also presents a barrier to entry to consider.
Our defaults out of the box are arguably irresponsible. We can certainly do better there. Back on the demo track: Perhaps we have two demo's. One that just gets you in right away but is 'wide open'. The other is a secure mode and in that we can use certs and can lock down via firewalls any in/out traffic we dont' want and we could even take out processors which interact with the outside world. We could pump in provided data (like network traffic from tcpdump, etc...). On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > The costs of hosting a live demo is something the ASF can help with. > > Having a live instance that's world accessible would certainly give us a > strong incentive to tighten up our security posture. :) > > -- > Sean > On May 13, 2015 9:29 AM, "Joe Witt" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jenn >> >> That does help and once the new site goes live they'll be prominent. >> >> All, >> >> This company does have a live demo up and running. I've not >> personally tried it yet but.. >> https://www.silvercloudcomputing.com/nifi-1.html >> >> Already a pretty solid thread going here. This is great! >> >> Thanks >> Joe >> >> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Jennifer Barnabee >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We have the screencasts I did [1] - in case that helps. >> > >> > [1] >> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHre9pIBAgc4e-tiq9OIXkWJX8bVXuqlG >> > >> > -Jenn >> > >> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Dan Bress <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> I agree, while NiFi has a lot of magic under the covers, the most >> >> impressive thing to new people is how easy you can configure and control >> >> that magic via the UI. I think showing off this capability as soon as >> >> possible is the best way to attract new users. >> >> >> >> If there was a way to have a live demo linked from the site, or even >> just >> >> an image/movie showing how easy it is to add processors, link them >> together >> >> and quickly have a working dataflow, I think people would understand the >> >> benefits of NiFi more quickly. >> >> >> >> Dan Bress >> >> Software Engineer >> >> ONYX Consulting Services >> >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> >> From: Matt Gilman <[email protected]> >> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:08 AM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: From apache nifi (incubating) site to running nifi in >> fewest >> >> clicks... >> >> >> >> For those with OSX we could make the latest convenience binaries >> available >> >> with homebrew [1]. I needed to test something using ActiveMQ last week >> and >> >> found it available there. Two commands and I had a running instance >> locally >> >> (with default settings), but we could certainly do something similar. >> >> >> >> [1] http://brew.sh/ >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > All, >> >> > >> >> > Yesterday I had a chance to talk to a really cool startup with awesome >> >> > developers who gave some great feedback on nifi. One of the things >> >> > they mentioned was how much they loved the UI. In fact they said if >> >> > they hadn't seen the reference to the UI they would have said >> >> > 'interesting' and moved on but not really followed up. >> >> > >> >> > The point they made is we should make it as easy as possible to get >> >> > from landing on the apache nifi webpage to having an up and running >> >> > instance of NiFi for them to get to start playing with the UI. >> >> > >> >> > I'd like to put this out there to get a sense of how people see this >> >> > being most effectively done. >> >> > >> >> > They mentioned Vagrant. We've also had some folks mention and >> >> > contribute references to docker images. Other ideas might be >> >> > providing a live/running site where people could just immediately >> >> > start gaining familiarity with nifi. >> >> > >> >> > Each of these have different pros/cons and it is unclear how to do >> >> > these in apache effective ways. >> >> > >> >> > Look forward to ideas you all may have or thoughts on what other >> >> > effective approaches projects have taken. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks >> >> > Joe >> >> > >> >> >>
