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digitransit-ansible

Install stadtnavi's digitransit with ansible

  • make dev: connects to the dev host and applies the playbook there
  • make beta
  • make production
  • make infrastructure

Vault

Secrets are encrypted with ansible vault. In order to run the above playbooks you need to place a file called vault-password into the root of the repository

  • it's ignored by version control.

Please get in touch with @leonardehrenfried to get the decryption key to paste into this file.

Encrypting

In order to add a new encrpted variable, use the following command:

ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file vault-password super-secure-text --name=my_secret_var

This prints an encrypted variable in ansible's yml syntax which you can paste into one of the vars files.

Decrypting

The easiest way is to look at the decrypted value is to view it on a host where it has been deployed to, where it is stored in plain text.

Digitransit target host requirements

This playbook has been tested with a Debian Buster (10) target only.

In order to execute the ansible playbook you need a user on the target host and sudo must be installed (which is not the case when using the Debian minimal base image). You also must enable passwordless sudo

DNS

In order for the automatic TLS certificate generation to work, you need to configure a DNS entry for the host.

On top of the main DNS entry, you also need up to three other ones:

  • One that starts with api. which points to the exact same machine. This is used to proxy all non-UI related API requests to their corresponding docker containers.
  • One for matomo
  • If you want to install Photon on the server too, you need hostname for that too.

Configuration files

The digitransit configuration files, that don't live inside docker containers, are placed or symlinked into /etc/digitransit.

Timers

This playbook uses systemd timers as a replacement for cron jobs.

If you want to list them run systemctl list-timers.

As of May 2020 this list as follows:

systemctl list-timers 
NEXT                          LEFT          LAST                          PASSED               UNIT                           ACTIVATES
Thu 2020-05-14 12:18:00 CEST  20s left      Thu 2020-05-14 12:16:01 CEST  1min 38s ago         thingsboard-to-parkapi.timer   thingsboard-to-parkapi.service
Thu 2020-05-14 23:00:00 CEST  10h left      Wed 2020-05-13 23:00:01 CEST  13h ago              data-builder.timer             data-builder.service
Fri 2020-05-15 00:00:00 CEST  11h left      Thu 2020-05-14 00:00:01 CEST  12h ago              docker-prune.timer             docker-prune.service
Fri 2020-05-15 02:00:00 CEST  13h left      Thu 2020-05-14 02:00:01 CEST  10h ago              digitransit-restart.timer      digitransit-restart.service
Fri 2020-05-15 02:15:00 CEST  13h left      Thu 2020-05-14 02:15:02 CEST  10h ago              tilemaker.timer                tilemaker.service

Automatic graph builds

The script build-graph builds a new graph every night at 1 o'clock. This is controlled by the systemd timer graph-build and if you want to modify this, then edit graph-build.timer and graph-build.service.

Common tasks

Restarting digitransit

systemctl restart digitransit-docker-compose

This also checks if there are newer images available on dockerhub and downloads them prior to restarting.

It also cleanly stops and removes the containers. This is important because hsl-map-server cannot be stopped and restarted.

Restarting a single digitransit container

restart-digitransit-container digitransit-ui

Viewing logs

All logs are sent to journald for storage and automatic deletion. Here is a list of common journalctl commands.

  • Viewing all digitransit logs: journalctl -u digitransit-docker-compose.service
  • Viewing digitransit-ui logs: journalctl CONTAINER_NAME=digitransit-ui-hbnext
  • Viewing opentripplanner logs: journalctl CONTAINER_NAME=opentripplanner
  • Viewing graph-build logs: journalctl -u graph-build

Triggering a rebuild of the OTP graph

systemctl start graph-build

A build is run every night but sometimes you want to trigger it manually.

aliases

To see the complete list of useful aliases check out alias.sh.

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