Review my app for making server stacks social
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Re: Review my app for making server stacks social
#2The flow in the video looks great.
Easier to get into than Chef :) Hope it works as well (or better)
Signed up for the beta
Re: Review my app for making server stacks social
#3The flow in the video looks great. Easier to get into than Chef :) Hope it works as well (or better) Signed up for the beta
Thanks for the words.
StackFu, however, is not a replacement for Chef.
With Chef you provision and manage your server's configuration, while StackFu is a social place for people to share "recipes" or stacks to be installed on your server.
Ideally, this will be the place for linux savvy folks to share their scripts. And for people who just wants to get something installed (like WordPress) to go, search and easily get it up and running.
Re: Review my app for making server stacks social
#4If anyone wants to find out more, Join us at #stackfu on Freenode IRC and follow @stackfu on twitter.
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#5I can't comment on the technical parts of what you're offering as I don't know Rails, but it might be a good idea to use full sentences in your introductory text:
"For example, deploying full rails environment to your server for your new app. Or as simple as installing and configuring iptables on your existing live server. "
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#6what is the "social" part? I'm not entirely sure I get what the product is. is it the sort of thing where if you don't get what it is, you probably don't need it?
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#7The flow in the video looks great. Easier to get into than Chef :) Hope it works as well (or better) Signed up for the beta
Thanks for the words. StackFu, however, is not a replacement for Chef. With Chef you provision and manage your server's configuration, while StackFu is a social place for people to share "recipes" or stacks to be installed on your server. Ideally, this will be the place for linux savvy folks to share their scripts. And for people who just wants to get something installed (like WordPress) to go, search and easily get…
Do you have plans for how scripts will be reviewed/flagged? I see from the video that one can see who else has deployed the script (with the assumption that a script deployed many times is most likely "safe"), but I would still feel a bit nervous about running a script blindly -- can one see the script code prior to hitting deploy?
Edit to add: I'm certain you don't want to be liable for people hosing their server with a malicious script -- I hope you have plastered all over the place that these scripts are not reviewed for quality nor mal intent (unless of course, they are?).
Another edit to add: I think this is a great idea! I could see myself using this -- I didn't mean to be such a negative nancy.
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#8what is the "social" part? I'm not entirely sure I get what the product is. is it the sort of thing where if you don't get what it is, you probably don't need it?
I believe it's social because it's a community where people can share their own scripts and improve on existing scripts. As well as deploy them easily, of course.
It's a great idea I think.
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#9what is the "social" part? I'm not entirely sure I get what the product is. is it the sort of thing where if you don't get what it is, you probably don't need it?
The social part is, imagine like a github, where people put up code and you can see it? Same thing with stackfu. People can put up stacks and you can deploy them to your server.
Example: A user made a stack for Rails, you need rails, you go and deploy the guy's Rails stack. You'll be able to make a copy of it, edit it, review it, and make it yours if you want, fix it update and push your own version so other people can deploy it.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the words. StackFu, however, is not a replacement for Chef. With Chef you provision and manage your server's configuration, while StackFu is a social place for people to share "recipes" or stacks to be installed on your server. Ideally, this will be the place for linux savvy folks to share their scripts. And for people who just wants to get something installed (like WordPress) to go, search and easily get…
Do you have plans for how scripts will be reviewed/flagged? I see from the video that one can see who else has deployed the script (with the assumption that a script deployed many times is most likely "safe"), but I would still feel a bit nervous about running a script blindly -- can one see the script code prior to hitting deploy? Edit to add: I'm certain you don't want to be liable for people hosing their server wi…
This is a great point. Let me address your concerns:
About being able to see the code: most definitely. Every "script" consist of zero or more requirements, one or more executions and zero or more validations. Each one is, in the end, a shell script with placeholders. You will be able see the scripts source code online and also "clone" the script to your account (not a git clone but an actual hard copy) and dump it locally using our ruby gem that talks to our API.
We will record another screencast soon about how we create new scripts and how we upload them.
About flagging scripts: we don't want to enforce any formal approval process, but we want the community to be able to flag scripts for malicious code. Another indication of quality may be the number of people who deployed it and/or watched it. We're open to suggestions and feedback on how we could improve it without making it an administrative burden. In the end, you're responsible for what you're installing in your server -- being it manually or through a script.
Thanks for such a quality feedback. Please keep'em coming.