Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
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Re: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
#2For my fellow HNers, this is "private cloud" in the meaning of Owncloud, not of Openstack.
Re: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
#3Isn't this just duplicating effort that's probably already been done, in many cases by the first-party maintainers, in Dockerfiles?
I don't mean to start 'Docker vs. Ansible', I just wonder why if you wanted a quick way to setup a single-server 'own private cloud' you wouldn't just go with what already exists, and list the images you want in a docker-compose.yaml file?
(Which would additionally set you up for 'scaling' if you had any concern that you might be able to save some cash with a two or three smaller servers than one big one by the time you'd installed everything you want.)
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#4Does anyone here on HN have experience using Sovereign in a team setting? I have a few questions:
* Mobile contact and calendar syncing: How well and reliably does it work?
* Calendar group features: how well do they work?
* Setup and maintenance: how much hassle is involved?
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#5Isn't this just duplicating effort that's probably already been done, in many cases by the first-party maintainers, in Dockerfiles? I don't mean to start 'Docker vs. Ansible', I just wonder why if you wanted a quick way to setup a single-server 'own private cloud' you wouldn't just go with what already exists, and list the images you want in a docker-compose.yaml file? (Which would additionally set you up for 'scalin…
Isn't docker just duplicating effort that's already been done in LXC or jails?
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#6One of the most important things when managing data is not losing it. Does this have a solution for doing backups built in or do you come up with your own solution like using something your web host provides?
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#7Could anyone describe what this means without the marketing cloud-speak bullshit?
Re: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
#8For my fellow HNers, this is "private cloud" in the meaning of Owncloud, not of Openstack.
I hear about Nextcloud a lot more than I hear about Owncloud. Does anyone know why this project uses Owncloud instead of Nextcloud?
Re: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
#9Isn't this just duplicating effort that's probably already been done, in many cases by the first-party maintainers, in Dockerfiles? I don't mean to start 'Docker vs. Ansible', I just wonder why if you wanted a quick way to setup a single-server 'own private cloud' you wouldn't just go with what already exists, and list the images you want in a docker-compose.yaml file? (Which would additionally set you up for 'scalin…
Not everyone wants Docker installed on their servers. It’s not a requirement with this playbook.
Furthermore, if you do want to use containers, there are tools like ansible-bender[1] that use Ansible to build container images.
[1] https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-bender (edited the link to point to the ansible-community repo)
Re: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
#10Could anyone describe what this means without the marketing cloud-speak bullshit?
Seriously, this technology isn't new.