On 9 December 2014 at 14:37, Blaise Alleyne <email+libre@blaise.ca> wrote:
>
> On 08/12/14 12:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > - I'm interested in setting up my in-house services like a cloud.
> > Perhaps <http://owncloud.org/>. Motivation: I want to keep control
> > of my own data as much as possible. Can anyone speak to this?
> >
>
> I could happily speak to this in the future.
>
> I'm self-hosting a bunch of stuff at home, as part of my own degooglification
> process: ownCloud, SOGo, Snowy, Mediagoblin, Tiny Tiny RSS, Dokuwiki... in the
> past, MythTV (including Mythweb), Mediawiki, Ampache... and services I'm
> hosting, but not at home, include FreeSWITCH and ejabberd (and email...).
>
> I also gave a talk at FSOSS this year on software freedom in a networked work,
> which covered some of this as well, though not as a technical talk.

That's certainly interesting.

We had a series of talks over the years on virtualization which kind of got

boring in that it amounted to "so, how do we go through the mechanics of

setting a VM to install X"?

We had a talk on Bosh recently, which represents a newer way of going
through those mechanics. Interesting in that it has gotten easier.

(I gather that Docker tries hard at another take on "making it easier")

The OTHER side of this is managing the infrastructure for a set of VMs.

I'm not keen on something where that's a big job; it sure would be nice if

most of the time spent managing a dozen services is spent on those
dozen services.

I know VMWare sells a product, vSphere, targeted at this, and that
OpenStack does somewhat similar (in OSS arena). Would like to hear
more...
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