Sandstorm Vagrant Package

matheusvieira

Good afternoon,

Today I would like to present the Sandstorm, since I met I realized that would be the future. Sandstorm is an open source operating system for personal and private clouds, easy to deploy and manage apps.
And I believe that with community efforts can easily launch the package.

Some interesting links:
Link to the Sanstorm - https://sandstorm.io/
Link to the Sandstorm Vagrant SPK documentation - https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/vagrant-spk/packaging-tutorial/

Some tasks need to be completed to function. As:
- Unique Login with Sandstorm ( https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/auth/ )
And some others that we can start to discussion here.

In return Sandstorm offers Ossis which is the Sandstorm hosted on their server, we can use to center the community.

What do you think about?

jordanjay29

Hi matheusvieira

I've been following Sandstorm since their crowdsource funding. It is a useful system, but it's more geared for cloud-based apps with per-user content (think about Google Drive, Dropbox, personal notepads and information repositories). It doesn't perform well with dynamic, public website software such as MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia). In order for it to work, Sandstorm has to create a static copy of the website and then push it out to the public server each time. This means that it's pretty much impossible to exercise the real-time editing features and other dynamic parts of the content.

For forums like Flarum, it would either need to be completely behind the login, or use a method like MediaWiki. Neither of these are particularly ideal.

Since Flarum is open source, it'd be completely possible for someone to take Flarum's package and make it work for Sandstorm. I'm sure that would be greatly welcomed by Sandstorm and Flarum communities.

That said, webeindustry's post is accurate, we're satisfied with the server setup we have and we're not looking to move our community at this time.

Thanks!

webeindustry

We have our own servers. I'm not sure what benefits a containerization of our hosting platform would provide. Can you elaborate why you think this would be a good fit?

matheusvieira

I'm not part of Sandstorm team. I'm sorry, now i'm a little busy, I will edit this post to discuss why Flarum will be a good app at Sandstorm.