This repository contains code code to assist installing the application stack as required by the NSL apps (editor, mapper and services)

Technologies used are:

• Ansible
• Packer
• Vagrant

Steps to stand up a new environment:

1. Provision a ubuntu / redhat machine possibly in AWS ( or elsewhere) ( If using Vagrant Oracle VirtualBox is used to automatically provision a VM)
2. Include the public ip/hostname and the private ip in the inventory/your_env_name_file
3. Create corresponding dir and files under group_vars. Use the existing env dir/files as examples
4. Run the following ansible-playbook command to install
   1. Tomcat
   2. Postgres
   3. ApacheDS ansible-playbook -i inventory/*your_env_name_file* -u ubuntu --private-key ../DAWRAWSSYD.pem playbooks/site.yml
5. Run the following ansible-playbook command to deploy war files for the NSL apps ansible-playbook -i inventory/*your_env_name_file* -u ubuntu --private-key ../DAWRAWSSYD.pem playbooks/deploy.yml

CI/CD set:

Jenkins is our CI server. Under the covers jenkins uses

• shell scripts,
• Ansible playbooks,
• github wehooks

As soon as a developer pushes changes to the remote github repo ; github webhook will trigger a build job in jenkins. Jenkins plugins used ( not an exaustive list) :

• Build Token Root Plugin (https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Build+Token+Root+Plugin) to enable build trigger without authentication.
• Pipeline to enable pipeline as code (https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/)

Report bugs using github issues