XS Community Edition/Features/port-to-ansible

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Summary

Porting XSCE services and modules to ansible

Owner

• Name: Anish, Miguel, Santi Your Name
• Email: anish@activitycentral.com

Current status

• Targeted release: 0.5
• Last updated: 1 November 2013
• Percentage of completion: Nearing completion (progress chart)

Detailed Description

Automate the installation and management of XSCE by integrating Ansible. This requires configuring XSCE with Ansible and implementing playbooks for each service.

Benefit to XSCE

Installation and configuration of XSCE will be semi-automated.

Scope

Description of the effort involved.

UI Design

N.A.

How To Test

Testing notes go here

User Experience

N.A.

Dependencies

PyYAML
python-paramiko
python-jinja2

Contingency Plan

Stick to the old setup

Documentation

Is there upstream documentation on this feature, or notes you have written yourself? Has this topic been discussed in the mailing list or during a meeting? Link to that material here so other interested developers can get involved.

Release Notes

The XSCE Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.

Comments and Discussion

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