Portfolio Website Deployment with Ansible Role 🌐

Overview

This repository contains an Ansible role for deploying a portfolio website. The role ensures efficient package management, installs a web server, and copies the necessary files to the server. It's a streamlined process designed to make deploying your portfolio website a breeze.

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Components
• Why Ansible?
• Getting Started
• Usage
• Contributing

Prerequisites

Before you start, ensure you have the following:

• Ansible installed on your local machine.
• SSH access to the target server.

Components

Ansible Role Structure

The Ansible role is organized into the following directories:

• tasks: Contains the main playbook tasks.
• handlers: Includes handlers for events triggered in tasks.
• defaults: Stores default variable values.
• vars: Contains variable definitions.
• files: Holds files needed for deployment.
• meta: Defines role dependencies.

Why Ansible?

Ansible is an open-source automation tool that simplifies complex infrastructure tasks. Here's why it's a great choice for deploying your portfolio website:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Ansible allows you to define your infrastructure as code, making it easy to version, share, and replicate.

• Agentless: Ansible doesn't require any agents on managed nodes, simplifying setup and management.

• Declarative Syntax: Uses YAML, providing a human-readable and easy-to-understand syntax.

• Community and Extensibility: A large community and extensive module library make it easy to find solutions and extend functionality.

Getting Started

Follow these steps to get started with deploying your portfolio website:

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/sumanprasad007/deploying_portfolio_website_using_ansible.git
2. Navigate to the project directory: cd deploying_portfolio_website_using_ansible
3. Edit the Ansible variables in vars/main.yml & inventory to match your server configuration.
4. Run the Ansible playbook: ansible-playbook -i inventory main.yml

Usage

Configuring Variables

Adjust the variables in vars/main.yml to match your environment and website setup. Customize package names, web server configurations, and file paths as needed.

Commands to setup Ansible Control Nodes:

#!/bin/bash

# Update packages
sudo yum update

# Install epel-release
yes | sudo yum install epel-release

# Update packages again
sudo yum update

# Install Ansible
yes | sudo yum install ansible

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/sumanprasad007/deploying_portfolio_website_using_ansible.git

# Navigate to the repository directory
cd deploying_portfolio_website_using_ansible

# Make setup_script.sh executable
chmod +x setup_script.sh

# Run setup_script.sh
./setup_script.sh

# Open sudoers file for editing
sudo visudo

# Uncomment the '%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL' line
# Press Ctrl+x, then press y to save and exit

# Check the status of the SSH service
sudo systemctl status sshd

# Try to connect to the server using user & password
ssh ansible@ip

Deploying the Website

Run the Ansible playbook to deploy your portfolio website:

ansible-playbook -i inventory main.yml

### Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request. We welcome improvements and suggestions!