Discuss the interface

[mmalecki]

+@kenperkins @indexzero

We should discuss what interfaces from pkgcloud to move here.

I'm proposiing to move out all the bootstrapping and provisioning-related interfaces (Bootstrapper) here (and that's essentially what 0.1.0 is).

@kenperkins also suggested that it'd be nice to have ssh, uploadFile, etc. methods on Server model. I think that'd be sweet.

My idea for that would be to allow creating Bootstrapper object with a target server, so:

var bootstrapper = new Bootstrapper({ keys: ..., server: server });
bootstrapper.bootstrap(...);

This way we avoid putting SSH-related stuff in pkgcloud.

[kenperkins]

Can you help me understand the use case of Bootstrapper?

[mmalecki]

So the use case of bootstrapper is creating servers with certain abilities for bootstrapping them. Bootstrapper is able to upload files to a created server and run scripts on it.

So, an example use case would be writing a deployer.

[mmalecki]

As for why you'd use it, let's say that you want to make a server with Nginx on it. What you'd do is (pseudo-code):

var bootstrapper = new Bootstrapper({ compute: ... );
bootstrapper.createServer({
  image: 'ubuntu',
  flavor: '512mb',
  commands: ['apt-get install -y nginx']
});

[kenperkins]

Ok, that sheds a little light. Obviously you'd have to be more specific with flavor, image, etc, but the commands certainly make sense.

Given that, yes, that does seem external to pkgcloud proper.