[libreoffice-website] update on SaltStack deployment

Hello,

I'd like to give you an update on our progress with the SaltStack 
deployment. Alex and Robert have put a tremendous amount of work so far 
in evaluating and coming up with some best practices for deployment, and 
created an initial configuration based on my documentation.

It will be based on Debian 7, with modifications to make it also work 
with Ubuntu 12.04, so we're a bit more flexible in the choice of the 
target operating system. In theory, it can also be extended to other 
distributions, should the need arise and people are willing to work on 
the configuration. We plan to release at least the noncritical parts of 
the files under an open license, but I will follow-up with details when 
we're ready.

So far, we are able to manage physical hosts, and set-up and configure 
KVM guests as well as Amazon EC2 guests. A first test drive was the new 
AskBot VM, that is already being managed by SaltStack with regards to 
the base OS.

There's still some work in front of us, but I expect that managing and 
deployment of hosts, also on a short notice, can soon be done much 
easier and faster, helping the infra team to react on the community's 
needs much faster than now.

So much for the update, more will follow soon.

A big thank you to Alex and Robert for their great work and support, it 
wouldn't have been possible without them!

Florian

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