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Set up a personal VPN in the cloud
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/12/12/meet-algo-the-vpn-that-works/
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User friendly provider UI #28

Closed defunctio closed 8 years ago

defunctio commented 8 years ago

A friendly wrapper around deploy.yml for deploying to different providers (EC2, DigitalOcean, etc) should be created.

Currently provider selection is done via passing a variable at the command line. Ex:
ansible-playbook deploy.yml -e "provider=ec2"

While I fully support implementing all options configurable at the command line through variables for scripting purposes, we need a UI for this.

dguido commented 8 years ago

How have you seen other Ansible-based projects implement such a UI?

All I've seen is the Tinfoil website: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new

defunctio commented 8 years ago

Nope I haven't, I was referring to a simple ansible playbook w/ prompt to act as a wrapper around provider selection mostly since I was too lazy to do it.

However; as far as an actual GUI goes... If someone wanted to, maybe a QML GUI w/ python using ansible API? To act as a wrapper for configuring settings, saving and loading profiles etc.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/developing_api.html

Doesn't have to be QT since we may not want to add that as a requirement but something that is crossplatform / portable.

dguido commented 8 years ago

Ohhhh, yeah I think we can build a wrapper around cloud service selection. That's easy.

jackivanov commented 8 years ago

Will done after #33

jackivanov commented 8 years ago

My conclusion - there are now way to make a good UI without bash

dguido commented 8 years ago

Ok, I understand. Let's build a bash wrapper for selecting a cloud provider.