progress report:

• wrote up design spec
• investigated cloud providers:
  • mid-term plan is to use Catalyst Cloud here in #new-zealand, but given how sbot is currently a cpu and memory resource hog, will start with something more affordable
  • short-term plan is to use Scaleway, with each bot on a cheap node
• investigated cloud orchestration engines:
  • got a Salt Stack master up and running, which pulls configuration from git repos
    • state (orchestration instructions) is provided by public repo: butt-as-a-service
    • pillar (private configuration) is provided by private repo: salt.butt.nz
• current goal is to setup @ssb.mikey.nz @ssb.rootsystems.nz and @one.butt.nz to run on this system