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.