Does this require multiple boxes or can it be deployed on a single system? On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 6:26 PM Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> wrote:
> John, > > as part of a larger effort this year to move production service deploys to > containers, we in the Services team have started work towards a > container-based development environment, which I hope will also eventually > provide a convenient way to distribute a fully functional MediaWiki system > for other uses. Current work is a continuation of mediawiki-containers, and > early alpha setup instructions are currently available in this README: > > https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-containers/blob/master/README.k8s.md > > Currently, this sets up MediaWiki with VisualEditor, Math & a few other > extensions, MariaDB, RESTBase, Parsoid, Mathoid, EventBus, Kafka, > ChangeProp, and Citoid, all in a Kubernetes cluster managed by minikube. > Our current focus is on building the tooling for development use cases > (such as enabling a quick edit - test cycle), but much of the work towards > minimizing resource consumption will benefit third party installs as well. > > Gabriel > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:40 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So I have been primarily using just the core mediawiki setup. But as time > > passes and I see more and more advanced systems integrated into > mediawiki, > > getting a "Standard" or common setup of mediawiki is getting harder and > > harder for basic users to deploy. We are now getting into requiring > > restbase, parsoid, composer and probably a few other systems that I am > not > > recalling at the moment. > > > > What does the community think about getting something together that > > simplifies/automates this? What I am thinking is something that could be > > used on a newly created box that installs and configures the needed > > components in a "standard" configuration? > > > > Right now the setup is less than straight forward, you go to add > > Extension:Math (which has been a simple project until recently). Where > you > > are told it needs Restbase, and mathiod. We actually include the > > wording *Unfortunately, > > there is no well tested guide on installing Mathoid > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mathoid> and Restbase > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Restbase> to work > with > > the Math extension *If we don't even have a good guide why have we > > converted a very high use extension to that? We then forward them to docs > > spread out between mediawiki.org wikitech, and the vendor's website. > > > > More and more users are hitting brick walls and giving up because they > > cannot figure out how to get these different systems talking to each > other. > > Ideally we would have install/config scripts for at least Debian and > Ubuntu > > systems with CentOS probably being the next highest used distro. > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > -- > Gabriel Wicke > Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
