Erik Rose’s lightning talk about WebLion Hosting given by at Plone Conference 2008 in Washington, D.C.

1. WebLion Hosting
Patience is for the dead.
Several months ago, …colleges, depts
Small team. No time to scurry around fixing and updating boxes.
No army of sysadmins.

2. For disagreeable people
cosign, local LDAPs

3. For disagreeable people
Different Plone versions
cosign, local LDAPs

4. For disagreeable people
Different Plone versions
Different products
cosign, local LDAPs

5. For disagreeable people
Different Plone versions
Different products
Different Apache configs
cosign, local LDAPs

6. Mass-installation tools
…are out because they assume…

7. Mass-installation tools
FAI
…are out because they assume…

8. Mass-installation tools
FAI
Puppet
…are out because they assume…

9. Mass-installation tools
FAI
Puppet
Disk images
…are out because they assume…

10. 
Every box the same

11. ? ?
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What about upgrades?
? ? ?
?

12. What I want
…
…
…from packaged config without breaking upgrades. Need manual intervention only when

13. What I want
Easy installs
…
…
…from packaged config without breaking upgrades. Need manual intervention only when

14. What I want
Easy installs
O(1) upgrades
…
…
…from packaged config without breaking upgrades. Need manual intervention only when

15. What I want
Easy installs
O(1) upgrades
Tolerance of local deviations
…
…
…from packaged config without breaking upgrades. Need manual intervention only when

16. What I want
Easy installs
O(1) upgrades
Tolerance of local deviations
…
…
…from packaged config without breaking upgrades. Need manual intervention only when

17. Weapons
APT packaged Plone
config-package-dev, Tim Abbott Tolerates local changes Zope, squid, weblion-apache-

18. Weapons
Debian packages
APT packaged Plone
config-package-dev, Tim Abbott Tolerates local changes Zope, squid, weblion-apache-

19. Weapons
Debian packages
“Config” packages
APT packaged Plone
config-package-dev, Tim Abbott Tolerates local changes Zope, squid, weblion-apache-

20. libsasl2-2
libldap2-tls
<debconf> debconf | <debconf-2.0> debconf-2.0
(>= 1.2.9)
libdb4.4
libgnutls13
Weapons
(>= 1.4.0-0)
libldap2
(>= 0.5) libpam-runtime
libpam0g
(>= 2.1.17-1) libpam
(>= 0.76)
netbase
(>= 0.6.4-4.9)
ifupdown
squid
(>= 3.5.4-1)
weblion-squid-config logrotate <openbsd-inetd> {openbsd-inetd} | <inet-superserver> {inet-superserver
(= 2.6.5-6etch1)
(>= 3.0-6)
configures-etc++squid++squid.conf
squid-common <iputils-ping> {iputils-ping} | <ping> {ping}
apache2
coreutils lsb-base
(>= 0.5)
(>= 0.5) (>= 2.2.11-1)
libapache2-mod-cosign
squid-novm (>= 0.5) (>= 1.32) libacl1
weblion-apache-config ca-certificates
libselinux1
ssl-cert
stat
(>= 0.5)
configures-etc++apache2++ports.conf apache2.2-common
net-tools
(>= 0.5.38) openssl
ne-3.1-stack weblion-plone-3.1-site apache2-utils
zope-common adduser
libmagic1
plone3-site
(>= 0.5.38)
(= 3.1.5.1-3) (>= 0.5.38) (>= 0.5.38) <mime-support> {mime-support} | <python-imaging-tk> {python-imaging-tk}
(>= 0.5.38) (>= 0.5.38) mime-support
(>= 0.5.18) (>= 0.9.8c-1)
libfreetype6
procps
weblion-plone-3.1 (>= 5.6.0)
(>= 0.5.38) <zope2.9> {zope2.9} | <zope2.8> {zope2.8} | <zope2.7> {zope2.7} (>= 2.2) libjpeg62
(>= 0.9.3-2~bpo40+2) (>= 1:4.0.12)
weblion-zope-hosting-policy apache2-common
weblion-zope-cachefu zope-externaleditor
python-imaging (>= 2.4) pil
libssl0.9.8
weblion-zope-webserverauth zope-cachefu
python-pil
libbz2-1.0 perl-base
weblion-plone-site-config configures-etc++zope2.10++plone-site++zope.conf
(<< 2.5)
(>= 2.3) python2.3-imaging 1.4.0-0)
(>=
lynx (>= 5.4-5) libncursesw5 passwd
configures-var++lib++zope2.10++zeo++plone-site++etc++zeo.conf (>= 0.5)
python2.4-imaging
lynx-ssl
python
(>= 0.3.3)
pdftohtml gs
(>= 2.3)
python-central
(>= 0.5)
python-docutils
libpaper1 python-roman
(>= 0.5.21)
xpdf-utils (= 3.01-9.1+etch4) xpdf-common
poppler-utils
libgcrypt11
(>= 1.2.2)
libgpg-error0 (>= 2.3)
(>= 1.4)
xsltproc
(>= 1.1.18)
libxslt1.1
(>= 2.6.27)
(<< 2.5)
libxml2 (>= 2.4)
APT packaged Plone python-elementtree (>= 2.6.27)
python2.3-elementtree
python2.4-elementtree
config-package-dev, Tim Abbott Tolerates local changes Zope, squid, weblion-apache-
python-libxml2
(>= 0.3.4)
python-support

21. Weapons
weblion-hosting-node weblion-squid-config squid
apache2
weblion-apache-config
libapache2-mod-cosign
weblion-plone-3.1-stack
weblion-plone-site-config weblion-plone-3.1-site
weblion-zope-cachefu
weblion-auto-update weblion-zope-hosting-policy
weblion-zope-webserverauth
APT packaged Plone
config-package-dev, Tim Abbott Tolerates local changes Zope, squid, weblion-apache-

22. Weapons
weblion-hosting-node weblion-squid-config squid
apache2
weblion-apache-config
libapache2-mod-cosign
weblion-plone-3.1-stack
weblion-plone-site-config weblion-plone-3.1-site
weblion-zope-cachefu
weblion-auto-update weblion-zope-hosting-policy
weblion-zope-webserverauth
Nightly automatic updates
APT packaged Plone
config-package-dev, Tim Abbott Tolerates local changes Zope, squid, weblion-apache-

23. Installation
(Basically)
See https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/BootstrapServers for details.

24. Installation
1. echo quot;deb http://deb.weblion.psu.edu/debian etch main
non-free contribquot; >> /etc/apt/sources.list
(Basically)
See https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/BootstrapServers for details.

25. Installation
1. echo quot;deb http://deb.weblion.psu.edu/debian etch main
non-free contribquot; >> /etc/apt/sources.list
2. aptitude update
(Basically)
See https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/BootstrapServers for details.

26. Installation
1. echo quot;deb http://deb.weblion.psu.edu/debian etch main
non-free contribquot; >> /etc/apt/sources.list
2. aptitude update
3. aptitude install --without-recommends -y
weblion-hosting-vmware-node weblion-auto-update
weblion-plone-3.1-stack
(Basically)
See https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/BootstrapServers for details.

27. Updation
and wait
…and hope the 5 egg repos are up.

28. Updation
Update the package repository
and wait
…and hope the 5 egg repos are up.

29. Updation
Update the package repository
Update each machine
and wait
…and hope the 5 egg repos are up.

30. Updation
Update the package repository
Update each machine
Run buildout
and wait
…and hope the 5 egg repos are up.

31. Goodies
kernel to Plone, dependencies describable
Scalable from…
Dedicated, ESX, EC2

32. Goodies
Everything in a single namespace
kernel to Plone, dependencies describable
Scalable from…
Dedicated, ESX, EC2

33. Goodies
Everything in a single namespace
Turnkey or full local admin control
kernel to Plone, dependencies describable
Scalable from…
Dedicated, ESX, EC2

34. Goodies
Everything in a single namespace
Turnkey or full local admin control
Hardware-portable
kernel to Plone, dependencies describable
Scalable from…
Dedicated, ESX, EC2

35. Steal Me:
http://weblion.psu.edu/wiki/
WebLionHosting
I look forward to your complaints.
pony: all my missteps are documented: svn’s open, wiki is full of instructions about how to

36. Steal Me:
http://weblion.psu.edu/wiki/
WebLionHosting
I look forward to your complaints.
pony: all my missteps are documented: svn’s open, wiki is full of instructions about how to