namnatulco

What's that, you ask? Basically, it's the cloud, except it isn't someone else's computer, but rather your own (or shared among some group of people).

My mental image is that it's a way for everyone to have cloud services without being dependent on “big tech”. Of course, “big tech” is not just horrible greedy capitalists destroying the planet with renewed vigor. Building cloud services involves work and specialization. The idea behind the coop-cloud is making it easy to share this work with others and minimizing the amount of work that needs to be done by everyone that sets it up. And so far: I'm pretty impressed at what has been achieved here already; even with my minimal practical experience, I managed to follow along (and even make my first, real open source contributions!).

That being said, it's not an off-the-shelf kind of thing at the moment; it's still pretty geared towards tech people. In fact, if you're not a cloud native developer or have some other previous practical experience with cloud services (and/or have operations experience – I know next to nothing about that, so you be the judge), you may struggle to follow what happens if you try on your own. This blog tries to take a newbie-friendly perspective and help you along. I will try to write in a way that is easy to follow even if you don't do much computer stuff – but admittedly, I will probably fail. Please point this out!

I’m currently working on a write-up of my experience with coop-cloud, which will hopefully also help people new to this space to gain a bit of confidence and join in (by the way, the blog you’re reading right now is running on my coop-cloud instance!)