diesel-net/ansible-role-application

📕 Common pre-defined and dynamic variables. Basic application configuration functionality.

fleet

Leveraging Docker Engine's built-in Swarm Mode on Ubuntu Server LTS Virtual Machines. This is the first piece of code that should be executed against a fresh host on the diesel.net domain

Checking-In New Hosts

To add a new host (or set of hosts) create a new local branch name with the pattern check-in/*, add the new hosts and their configuration to the inventory, then push. Please delete your check-in/* branch after merging.

Bootstrapping Hosts

Pushes to stable branches will trigger the entire fleet to be bootstrapped.

Updating Hosts

You will need the following installed:

Python 3.11+

1. Create a Python Virtual Environment (venv) and activate it.

   python3 -m venv venv

   source venv/bin/activate

2. Install Ansible.

   pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel pip-tools

   pip install ansible==7.2.0

3. Install Ansible roles.

   ansible-galaxy install --force --role-file .ansible/roles/check-in_requirements.yaml --roles-path .ansible/roles

4. Update all the Ubuntu hosts's Apt packages and reboot if necessary.

   ansible-playbook --inventory .ansible/inventories/dev  --inventory .ansible/inventories/prod --extra-vars auto_reboot=yes .ansible/update.yaml

ansible-role-application's Issues

Use ansible inventory dir base name instead of git_version for automatic file paths

Currently using /home/diesel/{{ repository }}/{{ version }} for where the data goes for a specific app, but it'd be nice if we could control it by simply naming the ansible inventory like so:

e.g.
.ansible/inventory/production

The reason this only came up now is the plugin (or ansible in general) allow you to pass in that exact path, without the /hosts on the end. This was a huge oversight on my part, because I've had this idea for awhile but it was a little messy since the name I needed was in the middle of a path. Another concern might be that ansible inventories do not have a "strict" structure so this would only work with my stack if we follow standards.