ahmedfaragmostafa / Ansible-in-action

Ansible playbook to deploy your Laravel code base to VPS

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Disclaimer

This project will help you to deploy your Laravel project to your VPS without a headache it contains by default PHP - MySql - Redis - Nginx

I suffered a lot while migrating my code base from VPS to another, I migrated my code base like 20 times between different servers then I had to automate the process to save my time

currently I able to migrate from VPS to another in less than 5 minutes without any human interactions,
i update my hosts.ini, run a single command make apply then I bring my coffee, watch Ansible.

Pull my latest changes using a single command make code-deploy

What Is Ansible?

is an open source software that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.

The Keys Features of Ansible

Agentless

There is no software or agent to be installed on the client that communicates back to the server.

Idempotent

No matter how many times you call the operation, the result will be the same.

Simple and extensible

Ansible is written in Python and uses YAML for playbook language, both of which are considered relatively easy to learn.


Installion

Installing and Running Ansible

# ubuntu 
sudo apt-get install ansible
#mac-OS
brew install ansible

For other OS check link

Ansible Architecture

Modules

small programs that do some work on the server, so for example instead of running this command

sudo apt-get install htop

we can use apt module and install htop

- name: Install htop
  apt: name=htop

Using module give you the ability to know if it's installed or not.

Plugins

Plugins are pieces of code that augment Ansible's core functionality. Ansible ships with a number of handy plugins, and you can easily write your own.

Host inventories

To provide a list of hosts, we need to provide an inventory list. This is in the form of a hosts file. In its simplest form, our hosts file could contain a single line:

35.178.45.231  ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu

Playbooks

Ansible playbooks are a way to send commands to remote computers in a scripted way. Instead of using Ansible commands individually to remotely configure computers from the command line, you can configure entire complex environments by passing a script to one or more systems.

group_vars

file contains set of variables for example db username and password.

Roles

Roles are a way to group multiple tasks together into one container to do the automation in very effective manner with clean directory structures

Handlers

Handlers are lists of tasks, not really any different from regular tasks, that are referenced by a globally unique name, and are notified by notifiers. If nothing notifies a handler, it will not run. Regardless of how many tasks notify a handler, it will run only once, after all of the tasks complete in a particular play.

Tags

If you have a large playbook it may become useful to be able to run a specific part of the configuration without running the whole playbook.

Project structure

├── README.MD
├── MakeFile                # file contains some aliases to get started quickly 
├── .vault_pass.txt        # file contains your vault config pass
├── ansible.cfg           # contains ansible default config 
├── code-deploy.yml       # playbook to pull latest changes and deploy code 
├── files                    # file contains sql_dump if you have one 
│   └── dump.sql
├── group_vars                # file to store all your settings [ssh-keys,php_version,..etc]
│   └── vars.yml
├── handlers                # basic handlers to restart nginx || php-fpm
│   └── main.yml
├── hosts.ini                # file that contains your host IP 
├── logs                    # this file contains error log details 
│   └── ansible-log.log
├── roles
│   ├── bootstrap-app
│   │   └── tasks
│   │       └── main.yml
│   ├── code-deploy
│   │   ├── tasks
│   │   │   ├── config-files.yml
│   │   │   └── main.yml
│   │   └── templates
│   │       └── env.conf
│   ├── misc
│   │   └── tasks
│   │       └── main.yml
│   ├── mysql
│   │   └── tasks
│   │       ├── config.yml
│   │       └── main.yml
│   ├── nginx
│   │   ├── tasks
│   │   │   └── main.yml
│   │   └── templates
│   │       └── nginx.conf
│   ├── php
│   │   └── tasks
│   │       └── main.yml
│   └── redis
│       └── tasks
│           └── main.yml
├── scripts                                    # some important scripts
│   ├── install_composer.sh
│   └── startup.sh
└── site.yml                                    # Main playbook to deploy all tasks 

Quick start

Before you start make sure you did these steps into your VPS you can add it as a startup script

#!/bin/sh
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python2.7 python3 python-pip

Clone Repo

git clone https://github.com/ahmedfaragmostafa/Ansible-in-action.git

Update ssh-keys

you have to ad you server id_rsa.pub to your github access keys by login to your instance and

ssh-keygen
sudo chmod -R 644 .ssh/id_rsa
cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub
# add it to your git account

Update hosts.ini file

[aws]
#your server  IP
127.0.0.39

Update vars.yml file

you have to define you config inside group_vars/vars.yml

#for example
ansible_ssh_user: "ubuntu"
current_user: "ubuntu"
server_name: "your WebSiteName"
repo_git_url: "you Repo"
mysql_db: sql_db
mysql_user: sql_user
mysql_pass: "put_your_db_pass"

by default, all these configs will be populated to .env have a look at env.conf file

Encrypt & Decrypt your config using vault [optional step]

#first create .vault_pass.txt to save your key 
touch .vault_pass.txt
echo 'YOUR_CONFIG_PASS' > .vault_pass.txt

# encrypt your config
make encrypt-vars

# decrypt your config
make decrypt-vars

Note

If you encrypted your config don't forget to use --vault-password-file .vault_pass.txt i added both options if you use any commands that start with safe- if you don't use vault use commands that don't have safe-

#with vault pass
make safe-apply 

# without 
make apply 

MakeFile

run make inside project dir you will get following tasks:-

Available tasks:
    encrypt-vars                            Encrypt your vars file
    decrypt-vars                            Decrypt your vars file
    apply                                   Deploy your changes into your hosts
    safe-apply                              Deploy your changes into your hosts using vault pass
    code-deploy                             Pull latest changes
    safe-code-deploy                        Pull latest changes with vault pass
    update-config                           Update your env file
    safe-update-config                      Update your env file with vault pass

Apply your changes

# RUN PLAY BOOK
make apply

#to pull latest changes 
make  code-deploy

# run specific tag 
make apply  --tags="php" -vv

#install specfic tag
make apply   --tags="php" -vv

#update config files 
make update-config

TODO

  • Adding terraform
  • clone repo using local id_rsa
  • Ansible as provision in terraform
  • automate startup script
  • automate and provision instances and generate id_rsa key

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