Virtualization Update

As many of you know, Connexions has teamed up with two contractor teams to develop virtualized versions of Connexions and Rhaptos. Virtualization of the Connexions platform will allow production environments to be scaled as demand increases and decreases, will be fault tolerant regarding hardware malfunction, will support rapid testing, and will support providing demonstration instances of the software when needed. Virtualization will also make running Enterprise Rhaptos instances easier and make providing hosting services for Rhaptos instances a cost-effective third-party service.

We have a diagram of the various options that are being created. To follow along with some of the work as it is in progress, we have a milestone for virtualization in trac. Because the contractors use their own development systems, the milestone doesn't have everything that is going on.

As this work progresses, we will be requesting that external teams start testing some of the intermediate milestones of the virtualization project. Please let us know (email cnx@cnx.org) if you want to be included in that beta testing.