So, I’m curious: there’s a growing number of hosting platforms specifically for the #Fediverse. For those involved in this, who are comfortable with answering: is there a particular set of tools you use for managing, monitoring, and spinning up instances?
Are those tools open source?
I’m mainly wondering about whether there’s some kind of open platform / dashboard / infra tools that could serve a particular need for hosting / managing / provisioning Fedi servers, and whether the existing hosts in the space would benefit from a shared project of some sort.
In case y’all are only seeing part of the thread: what tools do you all use for customer management / server provisioning / deployment / etc?
Would an open source platform for deploying, provisioning, and managing Fediverse platforms benefit you? Or am I grossly misunderstanding the domain area?
@blaise well, we are working on IFTAS Connect as a hub for moderators with lots of information; IFTAS also has matrix channels for moderation and implementation of moderation tools
@deadsuperhero Well, I'm kinda uhh "oldskool" in this perhaps :blobcatgiggle:
I am a super fan of standalone installtions of basically everything! Somehow I feel a lot more in control and know exactly where to look and what's happening
All my instances are setup from source without any manage tool so to say
@deadsuperhero I kind of feel in a similar way as @stux, meaning I prefer to have control over what I am running and to understand anything going wrong.
Now if an amazing tool (or set of tools) existed, then sure I would probably use it. But for example, on an infrastructure like mine https://masto.host/infrastructure/ I doubt that a tool could support it without any custom changes.
Honestly think there are other tools the Fediverse needs more than this. The number of new installs is not that high.
I also think that every Fediverse server would greatly benefit from open source telemetry tools, like Sentry, to highlight exact details and context when something breaks.
A service that could give someone a Fedi server and automatically set up Sentry tooling with good defaults for each stack / server type, maybe even make it easy to hook into a Matrix room for alerts? That could be a big deal for server operators as well as hosting companies and developers.
@jonoabroad Yeah, it’s an amazing tool for finding root causes and errors, surfacing context, and even showcasing what commits / changes caused a particular issue.
I’m a former employee, and don’t have the most positive things to say about the company. But, the product is open source, and it’s really good.
@deadsuperhero
Well, I have been on this soapbox for the past 8 years at least.
Fwiw, @getsentry has excellent dev rel staff and there are some #OpenSource stars who work there (although as I sink into my nap, the only name that springs to mind is Anthony Sottile.).
The folks at @hachyderm have done a lot of research into care & feeding of mastodon servers, so it's feasible to put together an opinionated collection of signals as a default #o11y config.
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