What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
No, just in a total rewrite.
Interesting, why rewrite and what is it being ported to now?
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@dyasny said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Interesting, why rewrite and what is it being ported to now?
The first iteration was very much a proof of concept, that we feel was very successful (maybe not the GUI, but the back end at least.) But it was based on quick and dirty tech like Meteor and MongoDB which has a license we can no longer use.
So the new rewrite is to use a wide column DB, ScyllaDB that you might have heard of, and PHP 7.x and our own abstraction layers, with the ability to scale much, much bigger. And now a focus on discrete functional completeness stage by stage, rather than a broad stroke tech preview. So the hope is a functional helpdesk out the door long before other functions are added in, for example. And a very real consideration that Salt may not be used under the hood at all, or only temporarily, as more power and functionality is desired with more control.
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@scottalanmiller Was this due to MongoDB?
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
So the new rewrite is to use a wide column DB, ScyllaDB that you might have heard of
hehe, nice
And a very real consideration that Salt may not be used under the hood at all, or only temporarily, as more power and functionality is desired with more control.
I'm no fan of Salt, but this is quite often a tradeoff. I see a lot of products trying to implement their own DSL, and failing, while others simply give the user a means to just insert their own code, be it regular bash/python/whathaveyou or a DSL, basically, like a standard command window in jenkins. This seems to work and raise less questions about choices
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BTW, I would love to hear about your team's experience with Scylla so far, this is an interesting use case
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@StuartJordan said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@scottalanmiller Was this due to MongoDB?
Not "due to", but that turned into a factor. MongoDB is a great product, but between their licensing and design, it just wasn't ideal for our needs.
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Looks very interesting. Any time frame for when the new version might be available to try?
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@HAPCAP said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Looks very interesting. Any time frame for when the new version might be available to try?
Going to be a while. It's a very slow go. The current goal is to get the helpdesk portion and, useful, and in use while the rest is under development so that there is constant feedback and improvement and testing of the core components while the complex stuff is getting redesigned and implemented.
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@HAPCAP said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Looks very interesting. Any time frame for when the new version might be available to try?
Going to be a while. It's a very slow go. The current goal is to get the helpdesk portion and, useful, and in use while the rest is under development so that there is constant feedback and improvement and testing of the core components while the complex stuff is getting redesigned and implemented.
Is it going to be open sourced and on GitHuh/Lab?
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@Obsolesce said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@scottalanmiller said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@HAPCAP said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Looks very interesting. Any time frame for when the new version might be available to try?
Going to be a while. It's a very slow go. The current goal is to get the helpdesk portion and, useful, and in use while the rest is under development so that there is constant feedback and improvement and testing of the core components while the complex stuff is getting redesigned and implemented.
Is it going to be open sourced and on GitHuh/Lab?
Nope, it's not software, it's a service.
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@Obsolesce said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@scottalanmiller said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
@HAPCAP said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Looks very interesting. Any time frame for when the new version might be available to try?
Going to be a while. It's a very slow go. The current goal is to get the helpdesk portion and, useful, and in use while the rest is under development so that there is constant feedback and improvement and testing of the core components while the complex stuff is getting redesigned and implemented.
Is it going to be open sourced and on GitHuh/Lab?
Nope, it's not software, it's a service.
Oh, hosted service with some sort of agent installed on managed devices?
Or strictly hosted helpdesk?
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@Obsolesce said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Oh, hosted service with some sort of agent installed on managed devices?
Eventually, the same as it was before (same architecture, that is.)
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Any update on this, just thought about it and wanted to see where this project is at.
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@DustinB3403 said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:
Any update on this, just thought about it and wanted to see where this project is at.
Sadly, nothing for the foreseeable future.
