ReleaseOperations/Projects/AutomaticProvisioning/Meetings/2014-01-22

Project Scope + relationships to others

- does not include taskcluster
- does not include storage blobs
- does not include task scheduler
- covers deployment on demand for linux, windows, OS X, and mobile

Near-term (Q1/Q2) infrastructure goals for the project
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/2014-goal-improved-testing-relops
Implementation plans for relops
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/2014-goal-improved-testing-relops
Do these meet the requirements?
- Yes, so far, but still vague
- Should have some kind of integration testing as POC
Does anyone see potential showstoppers or things we missed?
- moving machines between VLANs - can be done via inventory, but needs architecture defined and implemented first
- plans for Windows? Using MDT to build WMI's, and then deploy that with just about any cloud technology.
Open Questions and how they'll get answered:
- This is a radical change in our approach to security - what should we do to keep our security standards up?
  - Components will need review
  - Network manipulation (VLANs) is a risk
- cloud API?
  - Want a full EC2-type API
    - User management
    - Instance management
    - Autoscaling
  - The more similar to Amazon, the better
  - Interfacing with Amazon directly from the cloud provider would give us one API to provision anything - this would be nice but is not a requirement
Review required resources and how we'll get them

Is the Direct-Connect work part of this project? If not, who owns it?
- (handled offline) - adam will take this in bug 962679

look at provisioning tools / cloud stacks -- jake/dustin
continue with JAMF --jake
moving things out of GPO and into puppet or MDT (difficult with Win8 - registration of default browsers is domain-only) --Q
continue with puppet on windows, with different focus (puppet doesn't run on prod instances) --mark
plan for VLAN changes, but no implementation this quarter --adam