System and MSW Ops v0.1.0 | MathSwe Ops MVP (2024/08/30)

System and Msw Ops V0 1 0 | MathSwe Ops Mvp (2024/08/30)

MathSwe Ops is a wide form of SWAM (Special Software and Models) undertaking its new MVP that automates extrinsic OS image operations for fast system cold-start. This initial release brings a new CLI app to operate Ubuntu software and the new MSW Ops landing page featuring these new concepts and products.

CLI App for OS Automation and the MSW Ops Web Home

One of the MathSwe Ops MVP challenges is automating onboarding and setup for workstations and VMs for fast cold-start availability or restoration. It must be capable of safely installing and restoring software without human interaction (except when the OS asks for superuser passwords) on a case-by-case basis.

This initial release provides results to the Initializing the MathSwe Ops GitHub Organization (2024/06/19) insight.

MSW Ops deployment at Ops.Math.Software.

GitHub release at System, Ops.Math.Software v0.1.0: Publishes a CLI App for OS Automation and the MSW Ops Web Home.

MathSwe System Ops is a new CLI app for Ubuntu that implements the image concept with operations such as installation, uninstallation, reinstallation, and configuration to automate software. The MSW Ops web home presents the essential concepts and the System app documentation.

New System CLI App

The System CLI application is a part of the MathSwe Ops MVP to automate software operations in Linux, allowing you to set up server VMs and desktop Workstations by running a command.

An image is a model of a software package with OS operations to install, uninstall, or reinstall it. It can expand to include other operations, like configuring (restoring software state).

The technical documentation of this release is at MathSwe System Ops MVP v0.1.0 | GitHub.

System is a CLI application with a reliable and evolving design that makes cloud VMs and desktop work machines productive from cold OS installation. It automates cold-start DevOps and staff onboarding as per your organization’s standards.

Getting Started

MathSwe System Ops MVP is compatible with Ubuntu. Its release attaches the deb installer and its sha256 checksum.

Image Operations

The System app currently provides commands to install, uninstall, reinstall, and configure software on your OS.

Syntax:


            
            
            system install { image_1, ..., image_n }

Installation

The flag --config provides image restoration (if available). For example, system install --config miniconda.


            
            
            system uninstall { image_1, ..., image_n }

Uninstallation


            
            
            system reinstall { image_1, ..., image_n }

Reinstallation


            
            
            system config { image_1, ..., image_n }

Configuration

The program encodes official image information internally to keep this sensible data safe, like download URL domain names and protocols.

The variable part, like software versions and checksums, currently belongs to JSON files in its image directory. The image/ internal directory of the program contains the volatile data about images. Volatile information also contains the configuration to restore when running the config command.

For example, miniconda.json contains the version, hash, and Python version the program will install, while miniconda.config.json contains the Conda environment and packages the program will config into the Miniconda software (or image).

You can’t currently change image customization (JSON) since it is part of the installer unless you fork, update your changes, and build.

Therefore, the image repository consists of the program modules that support concrete software images plus their JSON information with volatile data that requires maintenance.

The System app automates ad-hoc steps in a case-by-case image basis that otherwise you must figure out manually.

Available Images

The initial release supports many images.

Available Server Images

Rust
Go
Sdkman
Java
Gradle
Nvm
Node
Miniconda

Available Desktop Images

Zoom
VsCode
JetBrainsToolbox

Available JetBrainsIde Images

IntelliJIdea
WebStorm
RustRover
CLion
PyCharm
DataGrip
Goland
Rider
PhpStorm
RubyMine

Notice the image ID you pass to the CLI argument is the lowercase and hyphen-separated value, for example, JetBrainsToolbox => jetbrains-toolbox.

The app implements the Config operation for the Miniconda and Git images.

The app’s robust modular design will allow the repository to support many more images and features.

MSW Ops Home

The new projects from MathSwe Ops need a web home or landing page to formalize abstractions like SWAM and present resulting products.

The abstract part of the page defines MSW Ops (Mathematical Software Operations) and SWAM (Special Software and Models).

It concludes with the concrete concepts of MathSwe, like MathSwe Ops and MathSwe Com.

The later sections will present concrete products, like MathSwe System Ops v0.1.0, with clean end-user documentation.

Page Snapshot

MSW Ops is running at its subdomain Ops.Math.Software.

The MSW Ops page defines the essential concepts behind mathematical software operations I’ve figured out in the past. It also presents upcoming products like MathSwe System Ops with its end-user documentation.

Reaching Production with MSW Ops and OS Automation

The previous initialization of the MathSwe Ops GitHub organization led to the value this release provides: a tangible product and home for organizing and deploying the operational products.

The System CLI MVP is a robust application written in Rust that will help satisfy the demands of developing MSW in local Workstations and deploying it to cloud VMs. It currently provides image operations to fasten a recently installed OS.

Even though the System CLI is an OS-level project or OS-level SWAM, it also serves as a foundation for growing more high-level mathematical tools by enforcing MSWE principles, like SWAM. Therefore, while a particular MSW can have its SWAM, MathSwe Ops provides the foundational (umbrella) SWAM to empower the particular SWAM of that MSW.

While the System app in its initial release can automate onboarding and OS cold-start operations for Workstations and VMs, the MSW Ops web home is also in production, providing the abstract behind it and the new products, like the System app, completing the engineering process from theory to production.