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This page provides information on the steps that are required to set up and configure the openIDL Ansible Jobs. Those jobs are essential to set up the openIDL node environment and deploy the different node components on the provisioned infrastructure.

The openIDL ansible playbooks can be used and executed standalone from a CLI. The preferred way though is to use AWX as it provides a powerful engine to execute ansible playbooks through a user-friendly web-based interface or automate using AWX Web APIs.

More information on AWX: https://github.com/ansible/awx

Prerequisites: 

  • AWS infrastructure is provisioned
  • AWX is installed and operational
  • Access to AWX with the default Admin user/password

  • Configuration is done and available at a private git repository

  • Credentials information is defined and available

    • AWS IAM user

    • git private repo deploy key

    • bastion ssh private key

    • HDS db access

    • fabric console user and password

  • Bastion machine (gateway) host address is available


The steps:


Step

Notes

User

Create new Organization

Create a new organization with the org_id

admin

Setup new AWX org user

Create a new user specific to the organization, and assign admin permissions to the created organization above.

It is a good idea to use a dedicated user for every organization that is deployed through AWX. Note that AWX can be used in a multitenant mode where multiple organizations can be deployed using the same AWX.

admin

Setup org project

Create a new project named with the org name, use openIDL ansible git URL and the appropriate branch.

org user

Setup inventory

Create a new Inventory named with the org name (bastion-org_id).

Add host using the bastion machine address

Add a group named ansible_provisioners

Add the bastion host to the group

org user

Create Credentials

Create the credential types as specified below (see credentials table)

admin

Create AWX job tempaltes

Create the AWX job templates as specified below (see AWX job templates table)

org user

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