988267 - Puppetize loop!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 994360

(Hello (Loop) :: Server, defect)

Description

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

We should have a way to start a machine without doing it manually.
I'm not sure what are the steps to follow here in order to have something working.

But I'm all ears!

Comment 1

[Benson Wong [:mostlygeek]]

Do you mean provision/deploy a machine without doing it manually? 
The common practice we have now is: 

- deploy a cloudformation stack (CFN), which is basically a collection of AWS things (servers, security groups, load balancers, etc)
- in the CFN we pass settings/initial commands to the EC2 box via userdata which causes puppet to run and update the box

So the steps are: 

1. create a cloudformation script in our svcops repo
2. create the puppet modules in our puppet-config repo
3. create RPMs for the app server and start versioning it 
4. deploy to make sure all the pieces work correctly

Comment 2

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Alexis -- Do we need this for MLP or can we push this to MVP?  Thanks.

Comment 3

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

This is needed for MLP. And is actually dependent on bug 994360