
Ansible for Automation of Software Provision in Madrid Workshop
Explore Ansible, a tool for automating software provisioning and command execution on multiple machines using SSH/SCP. Learn about its use in the Madrid 2018 workshop, initial deployment for Living Atlases, and playbook examples for managing systems efficiently.
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Ansible GBIF CESP Workshop, Madrid 2018 Dave Martin
Ansible - What is it ? Automation of software provision Tool for sending commands to 1 or more machines Uses SSH / SCP Easy to read scripts
Ansible - for Living Atlases Initial deployment Setup of Ubuntu virtual machines Apply upgrades Configure a system for your needs Setting up test environments
Ansible Playbooks Uses one or more Role Roles Example role - install MySQL Inventories Specifies the server
Inventories for ALA See ala-install/ansible/inventories/vagrant Inventories for all ALA components Create inventories using these to start Test deployments with vagrant
Tags ...are your friend (Re) run sections of playbooks See options: --tags --skip-tags