[CentOS-devel] Hosting SIG

Wed May 7 15:40:19 UTC 2014
Sam Kottler <s at shk.io>

On 05/07/2014 09:35 PM, Major Hayden wrote:
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> Hello there,
>
> I've been using CentOS for quite a while but I haven't gotten involved
> with the overall community quite yet.  I'm using this email as a step
> towards changing that. ;)
>
> Karanbir mentioned that the Hosting SIG[1] needed an owner and I'd
> like to take on that challenge

Wow, that's awesome news. You'd be a great leader of the SIG.

+1 from me.

>
> I've worked with web/application hosting since 2002 from basic LAMP
> stacks to large-scale, highly orchestrated OpenStack-based
> virtualization environments.  There are some nuances to the world of
> hosting that demands quite a few changes from a standard CentOS
> minimal installation.
>
> Some of my goals for the SIG would be:
>
> 1) How do we make it easier for system administrators to host
> applications using various development languages and server platforms?
>
> 2) How can we make configuration automation frameworks more effective
> and easier to use on CentOS in hosting environments? (Think ansible,
> puppet, chef, etc)
>
> 3) I'd like to see if we could make a boot-from-PXE squashfs live OS
> (similar to Debian's live system) a supported solution for very large
> server environments.
>
> These are just some of my initial thoughts on the topic.  I welcome
> your feedback!

I imagine you'll also want to ensure the work of the cloud instance and 
hypervisor SIG's is meeting the needs of hosting providers, but that's 
more a secondary thing for now as those SIG's are just getting off the 
ground.

-s

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> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup
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> Major Hayden
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