Provisioning

Provisioning is the process of configuring a server with the software required to run Open Food Network.

The provision.yml playbook installs packages such as curl and git, then installs:

• Nginx
• rbenv
• Ruby
• Postgresql
• Unicorn

First time: run the site.yml playbook

If the server you are provisioning has not been set up or provisioned before, you can run the site.yml playbook. This will run through the three main playbooks for: setup, provision, and deploy. The setup playbook includes adding the correct user accounts to the server.

ansible-playbook site.yml --limit=au-staging

This step can take a long time. And you might need to tweak your SSH configuration to prevent timeouts.

Running Ansible playbooks

Add -vvvv for greater debug output.

Next: Administration of your application server