Ensemble shakes hands with MediaWiki

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Ryan Lane's message of Fri Jul 08 22:14:48 +0200 2011:
> > - We agree that the openstack cloud is a good ground for experimenting with next-gen devops tools
> > - Ryan agrees to let us have access to their openstack cloud, where the Ensemble community would attempt to model their environment in Ensemble.
> > - Ryan mentions having lots of ops documentation on http://wikitech.wikimedia.org and configuration files at http://noc.wikimedia.org
> > - Ryan will be helping the Ensemble community with this project, and will try to attract ops volunteers to help write and maintain the formulas
> >
> > Here's the log http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/07/07/%23ubuntu-ensemble.html#t22:37
> >
> > Next Steps: The way I see it, this can be a good step to have MW as the first upstream to adopt Ensemble in their internal ops. Should we want to proceed with this, we need someone to step up and engage with modeling the MW ops environment in Ensemble. Any takers for this ?
> >
> 
> I'm really excited about this, and think it will be a mutually
> beneficial effort for our projects. Our architecture is fairly
> complicated, and I think is a good large target for the Ensemble
> project. Having more people familiar and working with our architecture
> is extremely helpful for us.

I'm excited as well! I think MediaWiki is one of the most intersting and
scalable open source applications in existence, which is why I chose it
as the first app I wrote a formula for.

> 
> I'll be available to answer any questions about our current
> configuration, and provide guidance on how things should work to
> properly match our environment.
> 

That sounds great Ryan. What would be great would be an overview of the
architecture so we can look at what we already have, and what we will
need going forward, and add it into our existing targets for formula
and feature development.