for kitas

GOALS

• E-Mail Self Service
• Checkin / Checkout (Fire Incidents)
• Affordable OPS costs (10-15 EUR / month)
• Scale to 1000 small customers

Quick Demo

Why Meteor

• node.js
  • affordable ops costs
• mongodb 
  • don't want become a DB ops
• jQuery | Bootstrap support
  • user acceptance
• Google/Twitter accounts framework
  • !yet another password based site

First impressions

• Wow! This is easy
  • Beta version available for public testing after 3 days
• Do I need all those meteorite (external) packages?
  • What if.... 
• Automatic testing tools? Where? How?
  • MDG uses tinytest for testing core packages
  • Nightwatch/Selenium?

Packages we REALLY, Really, rely on

• iron:router
• alanning:roles
• pinglamb:bootstrap3 & mrt:x-editable-bootstrap3
• meteorhacks:kadira
• jQuery tablesorter (NOT a meteor package)

HEADACHES

• allaning:roles
  • ok, but no organizational hierarchy
  • great developer, timely fixes
• mongodb
  • db must be local, no encryption at mongolabs
  • no failover for local mongos
  • reliable backup/restore procedure
• kadira.io
  • new subscription plans put the 15EUR/month at risk

Running the application

BOM

• Cloud Servers
  • AWS
  • Tutum
  • Digital Ocean
• Docker image
  • Node & Meteor app
  • nginx

Currently working on

• Deploy new container
  • use fleetctl service
  • use etcd and confd to propagate ip:port to generate nginx.conf
• Struggling with securing the env (etcd TLS keys, distribution/management is complex)
• Updating running instances
  • 12 factors > not quite
• Waiting for Galaxy?

Development tools

• brackets.io
• github
• docker.io
• Adobe Muse for wireframes