Infrastructure Management

Deploying & provisioning with tape

Use Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS x64

Provision with packer

packer build -var 'aws_access_key=XXXXX' -var 'aws_secret_key=XXXXX' -var 'do_api_key=XXXXX' -var 'do_client_id=XXXXX' packer.json

Basics

Install

• Add the following to your gemfile.

gem 'tape', github: 'smashingboxes/tape', group: :development, tag: <DESIRED_VERSION>

• bundle install
• tape installer install
• Updated the hosts file with the IP address of your server

[omnibox]
0.0.0.0

• Fill in missing values in tape_vars.yml
• Copy all developers public keys into some dir and specify that dir inside tape_vars.yml (dev_key_files)
• tape ansible everything

Upgrade

bundle upgrade tape
tape installer install

Custom roles

You can write app specific roles in the roles files storred in the roles directory

You must then specify the roles you want to use in omnibox.yml or deploy.yml

Read the Ansible docs on playbook roles here

Multistage

You can setup multistage by defining your hosts file as follows

[production]
0.0.0.0 be_app_env=SOME_ENV be_app_branch=SOME_BRANCH 
[staging]
0.0.0.0 be_app_env=SOME_ENV be_app_branch=SOME_BRANCH 
[omnibox:children]
production
staging

then use the -l option to specify the staging

tape ansible deploy -l staging

Testing

With vagrant

1. vagrant up or tape vagrant create
2. Put the following into your hosts inventory file:

[vagrant]
<192.168.13.37> ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

The port number might be different if other vagrant machines are running, run vagrant ssh-config to find the correct configuration. You can speicfy a port using the ansible_ssh_port in your hosts inventory file.

3. Update tape_vars.yml with information to a rails app you want to deploy
4. tape ansible everything -l vagrant

With QEMU

1. tape qemu create --name fe_test
2. tape qemu start --name fe_test -p2255
3. ssh-add ./id_rsa_sb_basebox
4. echo 'localhost:2255' >test_hosts
5. tape ansible everything

Run tape -h for a quick rundown of the tool's modules and options.

Development

git clone git@github.com:smashingboxes/tape.git
cd tape
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml --force