Introducing a Puppet Module for Setting up Kallithea

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> On 08/26/2015 01:16 PM, Robert Rauch wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> During the last months, I have been working on a Puppet Module for
>> setting up and manging Kallithea on various Platforms (see
>> https://github.com/rauchrob/puppet-kallithea). What this module
>> basically does is
>>
>> 1. setup Python/virtualenv (using another Puppet module),
>> 2. create a virtualenv for Kallithea,
>> 3. initialize and manage the Kallithea ini-configuration file,
>> 4. initialize Kallitheas database and
>> 5. setup a `kallithea` system service, enable and start it.
>>
>> Since this is currently the only Kallithea module on PuppetForge, it
>> seems natural to bundle any further efforts in this direction,
>> eventually making this module 'officially supported' by the Kallithea
>> community in the near future. This would probably help Kallithea by
>>
>> * simplifying the whole installation Process and
>> * making Kallithea visible to a bigger audience.
>>
>> Please have a look at it, if you like. Any Feedback is appreciated.
>
>
> That sounds great - thanks!
>
> For us who don't know puppet, can you give a very short
> completely-for-dummies description of exactly what to install, what to run
> and where to look? Perhaps something like
> http://docs.kallithea-scm.org/en/latest/contributing.html#getting-started .
>
> Is this something you ultimately would like to see upstreamed or should the
> docs mention it? Either way, contributions would be appreciated ;-)
>

See also somewhat related issue :
https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/issues/142/doc-its-possible-to-deploy-kallithea-using

In the past, people also suggested Docker or Vagrant.

Do you have a good view on how Puppet compares to PEX to Docker to Vagrant?

Thanks,
Thomas