[OOTB-distro] OOTB distro build

[Martin Cosgrave]

If you're playing along at home, the 50x_dev branch has now been merged 
into master

On 20/01/15 21:33, Martin Cosgrave wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Just wanted to give a quick heads up as to what has been happening 
> with the puppet build.
>
> Along with Daren from Digital Catalyst, who is now a member of this 
> committee list too, I have been developing the puppet build concept. 
> It's been going pretty well.
>
> https://github.com/marsbard/puppet-alfresco
>
> We got the 4.2.f build pretty much working before Christmas. I gave a 
> short talk on it at the Granada Alfresco Meetup.
>
> We implemented a simple test suite to help with refactoring to 5.0.x - 
> https://github.com/digcat/alfresco-tests - very simple at the moment 
> but they will expand to fit or else we can use them as examples for 
> creating the tests to go against required addons for example. They're 
> nice because they're in python so we don't need a complicated extra 
> compile step like you do with java based selenium tests, it tends to 
> get in the way of the devops and CI tools.
>
> We are a hair's breadth away from getting a 5.0.c build running but 
> getting some errors and also the two of us are getting different 
> results. It would be great because of that to get one or two others 
> involved in the testing. We are also getting to the point where it's 
> knowledge about alfresco that is limiting us (well me anyway), rather 
> than knowledge about puppet or travis or jenkins or whatever
>
> To that end it would be great to recruit you guys on the committee 
> that aren't involved already to help us with the testing of the 5.0.x 
> branch. To do so you'll need to check out the 50x_dev branch of the 
> github project.
>
> Note the instructions in the README.md depending on whether you want 
> to run it standalone on a fresh VM or under Vagrant. Come and join 
> #orderofthebee IRC channel on Freenode if you want to report your 
> results. I'm there most of the time (nickname 'marsbard')
>
> For now this is a standalone build of alfresco with mysql and solr 
> integrated into the same server. We are intending CentOS compatibility 
> but for now it is compatible with Ubuntu 14.04 (and probably 
> equivalent Debian, although that is untested). The intention is to 
> make it possible to provision each server role (repo, solr, db) onto 
> separate machines in the future. Other things on the roadmap include 
> "bring your own SSL" which I consider essential before going to 
> production with this.
>
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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