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• Remove

  • All the scihist_digicoll boxes (yes, actually terminate the ec2 instances)

  • Management server (ditto: terminate)

  • The elastic IP addresses digicoll-staging and digicoll-production

  • local_env.rb files

  • All volumes that are not in use

  • Unnecessary playbooks and roles from Ansible. (Best done in a sequence of BitBucket PRs. This is actually quite a project in its own right.)

• Keep

  • ArchivesSpace servers - staging and production

  • Anything in Ansible required to build the ArchivesSpace servers; the rest of Ansible can go away. 👋.

• Review, in collaboration with Chuck and Vince

  • Reserved instances

  • Security groups.

• Get Ansible ArchivesSpace build working from either Eddie or Jonathan’s laptop or an arbitrary unix box.

Long term

• Once Ansible codebase is simplified, move the contents to a new, private GitHub repository.

• Once Sarah Newhouse is settled, invite her to convene ArchivesSpace stakeholders to discuss the future of the server and its functions.

• Attempt issue #1043. Explore Terraform (or even a rake task or shell script) instead of Ansible to maintain our s3 configuration.

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