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This is the infrastructure sister project to [[Auto-tools/Projects/TaskCluster]].  Both fall under a larger initiative to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of building and testing for Firefox and Firefox OS.
This is the infrastructure sister project to [[Auto-tools/Projects/TaskCluster]].  Both fall under a larger initiative to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of building and testing for Firefox and Firefox OS.
Two other related but out-of-scope projects are:
* Direct Connection to Amazon
* Deploying a local Blob Storage engine


== Docs ==
== Docs ==
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* Be able to provision Linux instances on a single 4-node iX server chassis via an API call
* Be able to provision Linux instances on a single 4-node iX server chassis via an API call
** No automatic support for creating images
** No automatic support for creating images
* Resolve requirements for object storage, select an implementation
** No support for changing VLANs (but planning for this is underway)
* Research direct connection to AWS, provide decisionmakers with enough data to make a yes/no decsision
* Determine project metrics (financials, measurements) and begin gathering them


=== 2014Q2 ===
=== 2014Q2 ===
* Automatic creation of images with puppet, MDT, Kickstart, etc.
* Automatic creation of images with puppet, MDT, Kickstart, etc.
* Deploy object storage
* Dynamic changes to VLANs
* Support production provisioning across all platforms
* Support production provisioning across all platforms


== Tasks ==
== Tasks ==


=== Bare Metal Provisioning ===
==== Linux on Servers ====
==== Windows on Servers ====
==== OS X on Apple Hardware ====
=== Top-level API ===
=== Local Object Store ===
Figure out how to build an on-site object store similar to S3.
Requirements here are still unclear.
=== Amazon Direct Connect ===
Determine if a direct connection between Mozilla and AWS is viable, and if it would represent a cost savings or efficiency increment over the current arrangement.


== Components ==
== Components ==


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TBD
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