drupal-ansible

An Ansible playbook for a Drupal installation on Ubuntu.

Virtualenv

Some folks like other variants like pyenv, I'm old-school.

virtualenv . --no-site-packages --distribute
source bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

After creating instance, test authentication

Substitue your instance's public DNS name of course:

ssh -v -i ~/path/to/yourkey.pem [email protected]

Inventory (host) file

If you've got (say) your dev hosts in hosts/dev, you can specify variable to apply:

[gluster-brick-1]
ec2-107-20-89-160.compute-1.amazonaws.com ansible_ssh_user=ec2-user

Then you can connect and run a command like 'hostname':

ansible -a hostname -i hosts/dev gluster-brick-1 --private-key=~/path/to/instance-key.pem 

You'll need to add all your users private keys to that account, or better, add accounts with private keys for each user. Best to create a playbook for this.

Tasks

Add new task:

$ mkdir -p roles/TASK_NAME/{tasks,handlers,templates,files,vars}
$ touch roles/TASK_NAME/tasks/main.yml

Run Playbook

To run:

• creates initial machine (and database)

    $ ansible-playbook -i hosts/seed playbooks/drupal-bootstrap.yml -K
  

• creates subsequent machines (when database already exists)

    $ ansible-playbook i hosts/production playbooks/drupal-bootstrap.yml --skip-tags "init" -K
  

• creates read-only consumer boxes.

    $ ansible-playbook i hosts/production playbooks/drupal-bootstrap.yml --skip-tags "init" -K
    $ ansible-playbook -i hosts/production playbooks/drupal-readonly.yml -K
  

Chris does things more complicated, specifying his key:

$ ansible-playbook -v -i hosts/dev playbooks/create-gluster.yml --private-key=~/AeroFS/AWS-keys/chriskoansys.pem

Using Vagrant

• Install Vagrant (v1.4.3 at current)
• Install Vagrant-HostsUpdater plugin: vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
• Startup Vagrant: vagrant up

Then run ansible to bootstrap drupal:

ansible-playbook -i hosts/vagrant -v playbooks/drupal-boostrap.yml -K