Wow, this is really cool. Sometimes I just keep tweaking a server losing track of what I changed where (that's just me), would be so easy to just convert all the configurations I did automatically into a puppet script and deploy it on a bare-bones machine!
So, how would they go about monetizing this thing?
Hey I'm Matt. Honest answer at this point - we don't know, hence the open-sourcing. I think our initial attempt last year was not explained well and too difficult to get started with. This is our attempt to simplify our initial work as much as possible. Blueprint figures out what you did to a server and sandbox uses chroot magic to give you an isolated container to work in.
Our current direction which should be open for testing in April is a hosted Puppet service. We're hoping to make it easier for people to get started w/ a devops backend (Puppet, Nagios, etc).
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions I'm all ears matt AT devstructure dot com
If this evolved into something like ninite for servers I would pay for that. I mean, install and configure apps that I select, secure the server, etc., also give me a file with all the passwords, configs, etc. that the script made so I can understand what it did.
I'm a developer, not a sysadmin by any means and it's daunting for me to setup a new server and then remember what and how I have re-configured. Usually I just follow my host's tutorials and never come back to tweaking anything.
Maybe something like that exists already, I've no idea.
This is cool. As a solo cofounder/CTO/developer/sys-admin this is what I need, both to evaluate what I can scrap from my boxes and in case of everything going south to rebuild stuff. Pitty my VPS runs CentOS now, assuming it's not supported? (only Ubuntu is mentioned)
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Wow, this is really cool. Sometimes I just keep tweaking a server losing track of what I changed where (that's just me), would be so easy to just convert all the configurations I did automatically into a puppet script and deploy it on a bare-bones machine! So, how would they go about monetizing this thing?
Hey I'm Matt. Honest answer at this point - we don't know, hence the open-sourcing. I think our initial attempt last year was not explained well and too difficult to get started with. This is our attempt to simplify our initial work as much as possible. Blueprint figures out what you did to a server and sandbox uses chroot magic to give you an isolated container to work in.
Our current direction which should be open for testing in April is a hosted Puppet service. We're hoping to make it easier for people to get started w/ a devops backend (Puppet, Nagios, etc).
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions I'm all ears matt AT devstructure dot com
I must say it was quite impressive and cool to see my personal's desktop configuration automatically put into a ruby DSL.
If this evolved into something like ninite for servers I would pay for that. I mean, install and configure apps that I select, secure the server, etc., also give me a file with all the passwords, configs, etc. that the script made so I can understand what it did.
I'm a developer, not a sysadmin by any means and it's daunting for me to setup a new server and then remember what and how I have re-configured. Usually I just follow my host's tutorials and never come back to tweaking anything.
Maybe something like that exists already, I've no idea.
I was actually looking for exactly what you describe yesterday. Does anyone know if such a thing exists for bare metal servers?
This is cool. As a solo cofounder/CTO/developer/sys-admin this is what I need, both to evaluate what I can scrap from my boxes and in case of everything going south to rebuild stuff. Pitty my VPS runs CentOS now, assuming it's not supported? (only Ubuntu is mentioned)