isle-buildkit vs islandora-playbook

[Natkeeran]

@dannylamb

Are we going to target https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-buildkit for building islandora 8. When thats ready, will the ansible playbook be deprecated?

Are we planning on migrating the setup logic in anisble to docker? Do we loose any functionality in the process (i.e ansible is more readable and easier to troulbeshoot!)?

[dannylamb]

The committers need to have some say in this. It's just that ISLE isn't done yet, so no one can seriously evaluate it.

Personally, I think once folks try it, we'll quickly move to deprecating the playbook and the roles. We definitely don't lose functionality, and we actually gain more in terms of setup (e.g. built in proxy frontend, everything's truly decoupled, deploying remotely with docker-compose is sweet). And we are really staging ourselves for using Kubernetes, which will elastically autoscale the microservices. Plus it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay faster.

[rosiel]

Notes from I8 Call: The "we need a bare metal possibility" use case was why we went with ansible in the first place, but it sounds like less of a pressing use case. Is there community opposition to going full-in Docker? Is there a need for a bare-metal deploy option? (at least one yes). Is it additional complexity which may influence adoption? (probably).