Production-like vagrant/Notes-2014-04-09

Next steps from last time: * Reaching out to additonal folks (including ops) [done] * Work on distribuiton (Matt's going to spearhead this with Yuvi) [in progress[ ** Make proposal for hardware needs (usb stick, cds, blah) * Set up project proposal page for production-like vagrant (Arthur) [done] * Set up project proposal page for bootcamp (Bryan) [done] * Meet again in a month (Arthur) [in progress] * Let Erik know we'll have hardware needs, get him specifics in a month (Arthur) [done]

Distribution stuff: in progress USB drive/DVDs for distribution?
 * 30 USB sticks, 4-8gb - request from IT [Arthur]

How much should we flush out what to work on before the hackathon, can we just play it loose and fast? Should come in with *some* clarity, particularly around things that may incur some resistance from outside


 * Varnish
 * use puppet module
 * SSL (nginx)
 * use puppet module
 * MariaDB
 * Memcache/Redis
 * CentralAuth
 * Tackle multiversion in vagrant?
 * configure MW and set of apps in a way to mimic production but for performance tweaks cf https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119216/
 * Prepared XML dump import

Beforehand: turn into submodules in ops repo: [Otto]
 * varnish
 * nginx
 * mariadb

Meet again last week of April [Arthur]

Next steps
* Order 30 USB sticks, 4-8gb [arthur] * Continue hammering out distribution [Matt] * Turn specific things into submodules in ops