Using Ansible and AWS to create a CI CD pipeline for Static Website

Pre-Requisites:

Here we assume you have the following on your local machine

• boto
• python2.7
• keys placed in ~/.boto
• ansible

Instructions to Run

deploy-webapp.yml playbook does the following as of now:

• create a security group named my-sec-grp which allows ssh, http, https from any ip address.
• create two ec2 instances named server1 and server2

Before running add the following to /etc/ansible/hosts

[local]
localhost

To Deploy, execute the following

ansible-playbook -i /etc/ansible/hosts deploy-webapp.yml

Work Done:

• deployed a cloudformation stack to provision the following :
  • EC2 Instance (CICD Server)
  • S3 Bucket which holds contents of the static website
  • CloudFront Distribution
• ansible role to install git on CICD Server

TODO:

• Role to install jekyll (static site generator) and its dependencies
• Role to install Jenkins
• Role to install github plugin for Jenkins
• Role to install aws-cli on CICD Server

Author:

Ajinkya Kadam