Ansible Playbooks for DesignSafe

Ansible playbooks for deploying/managing various components of the DesignSafe-CI.

Prequisites

Before you can run these playbooks, you will need to make sure the following is all set up and configured.

Install:

• build-essential
• libssl-dev
• python 2.x
• python-dev
• python-setuptools
• pip
• Ansible 2.x

Configure:

• Host keys for deployment targets
• Host file(s) for deployment targets
  • Should be configured outside the playbook, e.g. /designsafe/ansible/hosts
  • A template for this is available ?here? [[TODO]]
• Ansible variables Variables for deployment targets
  • Should be configured outside the playbook, e.g. /designsafe/ansible/variables/variables.yml
  • A template for this is available ?here? [[TODO]]

Configuration

Inventory

Before you can use these playbooks you will need to configure your Ansible inventory and setup your variables file(s). The default inventory location is /etc/ansible/inventory. The ansible.cfg file located at the root of this repository sets the inventory file location to ~/.ansible/hosts. To use this config file either a) run playbooks from the root of this repository or b) copy the ansible.cfg file to $HOME.

Variables

Variables files for each playbook should be placed in the directory ~/.ansible/designsafe/vars/.

Playbooks

The following playbooks are available. For each is listed the inventory group and variables file that will be activated when you run the associated playbook.

DesignSafe Main Portal

Production

• Inventory group: designsafe_portal_prod
• Variables file: ~/.ansible/designsafe/vars/portal_prod.yml
• Playbook: playbooks/portal_prod.yml

QA/Testing

• Inventory group: designsafe_portal_qa
• Variables file: ~/.ansible/designsafe/vars/portal_qa.yml
• Playbook: playbooks/portal_qa.yml
• Commands: ansible-playbook playbooks/portal_qa.yml --limit=portal-dev -vvv && ansible-playbook playbooks/portal_qa.yml --limit=worker-dev -vvv

DesignSafe EF Sites

• Inventory group: designsafe_ef_prod
• Variables file: ~/.ansible/designsafe/vars/portal_prod.yml
• Playbook: playbooks/ef_prod.yml

Elasticsearch cluster

TODO

DesignSafe VCoP Forums

TODO