Ansible project for Deploying Transtats

How to use

• Install ansible on your computer (sudo pip install ansible should do the trick).

• Clone this project.

• Edit the transtats-ansible/hosts file and enter the IP address of the server you are deploying to.

• If you want to deploy app on different platform just create platform ansible-distriution-name-vars.yml file in vars folder e.g RHEL-vars.yml. oko- Run the playbook:

   cd transtats-ansible
   ansible-playbook provision.yml  
  

• Run playbook with environment variable if you want to change the default remote_user (root) in ansible.cfg

  cd transtats-ansible
  ansible-playbook --extra-vars "REMOTE_USER=remote_user" 	provision.yml
  

• By default this playbook download Transtats latest released tar.gz file for deployment. For different transtats version deployment, one can use environment variables release_testing (false|default) and test_target_url (https://github.com/transtats/transtats/archive/refs/heads/devel.zip|default).

  cd transtas-ansible
      ansible-playbook --extra-vars "TEST_TARGET_URL=https://github.com/transtats/transtats/archive/refs/heads/r085.zip RELEASE_TESTING=true" provision.yml
  

• Run playbook with environment variable if you want to change the db name..etc

  cd transtats-ansible
  ansible-playbook --extra-vars "DATABASE_NAME=db_name DATABASE_USER=db_user DATABASE_PASSWD=db_pass  DATABASE_HOST=db_host" provision.yml 
  

  Replace the value in place of db_name, db_user, db_pass and db_host.