Scope and Objectives

The objective of this group is to discuss, share, and organize resources for hosting, monitoring, and securing Hydra-based applications.

Topics include areas such as

• Project, release, and configuration management
• Continuous integration and testing
• Performance testing, profiling, scaling, and high availability
• Application usage reporting, monitoring, and alerting
• Server environments and architecture
• Security management, auditing, backups, and disaster recovery
• Virtualization and containerization (e.g. Docker, Vagrant)

Members

Add your name if you are interested in joining this new group.

• Co-facilitator: Erin Fahy (Stanford)
• Co-facilitator: Glen Horton (University of Cincinnati)
• Alicia Cozine (Data Curation Experts)
• John H. Robinson, IV (UCSD)
• Ryan Rotter (University of Michigan)
• Kathryn Cassidy (Trinity College Dublin)
• Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
• Weiwei Shi (University of Alberta)
• Tony Zanella (Stanford)
• Kieran Etienne (Penn State University)
• Scott Smith (UC Santa Barbara)
• Alex Dunn (UC Santa Barbara)
• Bill Branan (DuraSpace)
• David Chandek-Stark (Duke)
• Collin Brittle (Virginia Tech)
• Drew Heles (Johns Hopkins)

Resources

Ansible

• DCE / CHF scripts: https://github.com/curationexperts/ansible-hydra
  • These are designed to be general enough to use anywhere! Please try them out and let us know how it works for you!
• Temple's scripts: https://github.com/tulibraries/ansible_sufia
• U Alberta's scripts: https://github.com/ualbertalib/sufia-ansible-vagrant
• Wash U's scripts: https://github.com/wulib-wustl-edu/ansible
• Virginia Tech's scripts: https://github.com/VTUL/InstallScripts

Puppet

• University of Cincinnati: https://github.com/uclibs/scholar-puppet-vagrant

Preliminary Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey!

Results Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VLHxPJrxIN4t2_3UOkneaHDprbMOLA_Zgg0bSWli8Bo/edit?usp=sharing

(see charts tab for bar graphs of results)

Meeting Times and Communication Channels

A regular meeting time has not yet been established for this new group.  Fill out the Doodle for the next meeting at http://doodle.com/poll/ekw4ud3p8w8efwe9

Notifications will be posted to samvera-community@googlegroups.com and to the Project Hydra #devops channel on Slack.  General discussion will likely take place in the Slack channel.  If you are not a member of the Slack Project Hydra team, you can request an automatic invite.

Meetings

Meetings are scheduled as needed.

Past meetings:

• November 22, 2016 - 4 pm EST
  
  • Upcoming!
• January 26, 2016 - 4 pm EST
  • Meeting recording (Blue Jeans): https://bluejeans.com/s/91GU/
  • University of Alberta slides for Ansible Configuration:
    • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q6gpQxlKazbiOY9bwSihEVQtwwBvtr-RCCg9dej76ug/edit?usp=sharing
    • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uZeVXjwh1unJizkXf421zFMKklFK9F06UZhKhsS_TS4/edit?usp=sharing
• December 15, 2015 - 1 pm PST
  • Meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/162A9N7HJJ6eGgLR1_noildUIcR_dNiNqDieem1g5nMI/edit?usp=sharing
  • Meeting recording (Blue Jeans): https://bluejeans.com/s/8VEW/
• November 19, 2015 - 2 pm EST
  • Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sI0zJPE3tyWXDmqi8CThjEr9JhtHBRzvGnNM7tbCcqg/edit?usp=sharing
  • Meeting recording (WebEx): https://ucincinnati.webex.com/ucincinnati/ldr.php?RCID=25a87be92c77ef1f47d8861f61b55746
  • Meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/184A8YcX8yApUrga_jihKGC0xLmxaeq7Jhor26PMKodY/edit