EmacsConf ansible

[Sacha Chua]

Hi opalvaults, Cairn, all!

Did y'all get around to making an Ansible playbook, or should I start one from scratch? I might do some digging into setting up a playbook for:

- file drop (got any favourites for a simple web interface for uploading large files?) so speakers don't struggle with FTP (https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#upload)

- self-hosted Etherpad so we can easily do one pad per talk and manage it via the API

And eventually also adding our current stuff for easier local dev and the ability to spin things up/down:

- ikiwiki setup (currently have my local one in a docker)

- local icecast for forwarding to the conference one

- conference icecast

- maybe ffmpeg or OBS in the cloud?

I tend to do local stuff in dockers, and I think bandali likes to work with as little virtualization as possible in prod.

For inspiration, here's DebConf's ansible repo: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/ansible

Do you happen to have any notes/files from last year that you can share with me, or do you want to help figure these things out for this year?

Sacha

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 12:34 opalvaults (Ry) via emacsconf-org <emacsconf-org@nongnu.org> wrote:

Sounds good Cairn! We can do it one of two ways. We could spin up our
own lab environment once we get an idea of what solution we're going
with. Alternatively, you could follow along with your own VM's. I think
no matter what option we go with it'll be cool to get your hands dirty
and playing with some infra-as-code. :)

Lets wait until we've chosen a virtualization solution and then we can
plan a date if that sounds good?

On 12/6/21 10:37, Cairn wrote:
> I would love a workshop! It definitely seems like a good place to start, and it would keep everyone on the same page as we try this new testing phase of sorts. I especially have some catching up to do, and this would help me a lot.
>
> Would most of the work be writing `.yml` files, or should we come prepared with a VM at the ready?
>
> Especially over the next few weeks, I'm available any sane time within EST. Looking forward to a suggested schedule!