Flussonic Ansible Role

This is an Ansible role that installs the Flussonic Streaming server and configures it as VOD streaming server with an S3 bucket as source location.

Currently only supports http video on demand (VOD) / streaming setup and non of all the other Flussonic features

Requirements

Flussonic Licence. Optionally AWS account for S3 bucket.

This is only tested on newer versions of Ansbile (> 2.0) and on Ubuntu host but might also work with other Linux flavours/older Ansible versions.

Role Variables

This is the variables that can be set for this role. Licence key is required, otherwise Flussonic won't start!

# You need to set a valid licence key, like this:
flussonic_licence_key: abc123

# Name for VOD endpoint
flussonic_vod_path: vodplayback

# Admin credentials, overwrite:
flussonic_admin_user: admin
flussonic_admin_pw: pleaseChangeMe

# AWS S3 bucket settings, overwrite:
flussonic_source_buckets: [ my-streaming-videos ]
flussonic_bucket_aws_access_key: myAWSkey
flussonic_bucket_aws_secret_key: myAWSkey
# if set to true will create bucket on S3 from Ansible host
# that runs this role (so make sure AWS env works):
s3_create_bucket: false
s3_aws_region: us-east-1

# Set to true to add crossdomain policy to flussonic server doc root
# needed for some flashplayers:
flussonic_crossdomain: false

For more variables check the defaults/main.yml file.

Dependencies

This role depends on no other roles.

Example Playbook

Include the role into your playbook in the usual way:

- name: My flussonic play
  hosts: servers
  vars:
    flussonic_licence_key: abc123
    flussonic_source_buckets:
      - my-bucket
    flussonic_bucket_aws_access_key: abs123
    flussonic_bucket_aws_secret_key: abcxyz
    flussonic_admin_pw: supersecret
  roles:
    - { role: mediafellows.flussonic, licence_key: abc123 }

License

BSD, as is.

Author Information

Stefan Horning stefan.horning@mediafellows.com