On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:48 PM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Stratos is fairly complex to setup which I believe may be a barrier to > adoption. > > Personally, I feel more comfortable using native packages than using > puppet. However, I wasn't sure of the current best practice whether to use > native packages or puppet for setting up a system, so I did a little bit of > research. One article that I found quite useful is here [1]. I certainly > agree with the argument that native packaging expands user adoption. > > Rather than a pure native package approach, it may be that a hybrid > approach is more suitable for stratos. This is where the native package > installs a setup script, and the setup script uses puppet to install an > application. This is the approach taken by packstack. Packstack makes it > very easy to setup openstack. > > 2) Stratos has large hardware requirements (e.g. 8+ GB) memory which may > be a barrier to adoption. > > I was hoping that installing products on a single (or fewer) carbon > instances will dramatically reduce memory consumption. > > Sounds like a good plan. > --- > [1] http://puppetlabs.com/blog/software-packaging-best-practices > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What would be the advantage of installing these using apt instead of a >> Puppet based download & extract, and saving that image? >> >> Also, you have suggested installing the relevant features on top of >> carbon-core instead if directly installing the products? >> >> It would be great if you could elaborate a bit more on what you are >> trying to achieve. >> >> Thanks >> Azeez >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:11 AM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Devs, >>> >>> Do you have a view on this email thread: >>> >>> http://mail.wso2.org/mailarchive/architecture/2014-January/014547.html >>> >>> If the idea that I'm proposing in that thread could work in theory, then >>> I would like add creating deb packages for stratos to the list of tasks >>> that I'm working on. >>> >>> If the idea is a non-starter, then it would be good to know that too. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Chris >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> *Afkham Azeez* >> Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, >> *Member; Apache Software Foundation; >> **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> >> >> *email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]> >> * cell: +94 77 3320919 <%2B94%2077%203320919> blog: * >> *http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org> >> *twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> >> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez >> <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez>* >> >> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* >> >> > > > -- > Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. > http://lnkd.in/cw5k69 > -- *Afkham Azeez* Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, *Member; Apache Software Foundation; **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> *email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]> * cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org*<http://blog.afkham.org> *twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez>* *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
