I went to a presentation this past weekend about Tiny Tiny RSS. It's an RSS web app that can be installed on a server, to provide something like a "Google Reader" app. (The title of the presentation was "The Coming Google RSS Reader Apocalpyse", at BarCampRDU 2013.)
The presenter has Tiny Tiny RSS running on a machine at home, and is providing service for himself and some family and friends. He's even written a keyboard-centric web frontend: https://github.com/cgrinds/dripdripdrop He runs Tiny Tiny RSS as the backend, and then serves up pages based on the front end he's written. Tiny Tiny RSS is listed on the FreedomBox LeavingTheCloud page: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud This got me thinking about how I'd like to Tiny Tiny on the machine I've got at home. Currently it's running ownCloud, WordPress, a Tor Relay, and BitTorrent. They run on separate VMs. I'd like to run Tiny Tiny RSS too, and want to put it in a separate VM. Ideally I'd have a script I could run, that just spins up a new VM running Tiny Tiny. It would be something like: freedombox-vm create tiny-tiny-rss [instance-name] [config-script-file] freedombox-vm start [instance-name] The VMs would run using KVM. Here's an interesting post on this, from this past week: How to get started with libvirt on Debian http://rabexc.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-get-started-with-libvirt-on.html I want to dig into this as a next project, after some other things I'm working on. I thought I'd put it out there to get any thoughts other might have on this, and find out if anyone else is doing something similar. Ultimately, it seems this kind of approach would be a good one for FreedomBox in general. The process of spinning up instances would be hidden behind the FreedomBox web UI, but a user would essentially be doing things such as "freedombox-vm create" and "freedombox-vm start". This way, services are better insulated from each other, for better security. The host machine would probably be doing basic network services (dhcpd, dhclient, iptables, etc.) But then there would be a separate VM for user services such as an RSS reader, social networking, chat, etc. To take this one step further, the longer term goal would be to do something similar to what Qubes is doing with things such as temporary VMs -- VMs created temporarily for just one task and then discarded: http://www.qubes-os.org/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
