Automating my cloud server.

Set up Ansible

Ansible keeps changing things. It needs to be managed. So does Python. It also need to be managed. Use mise to get python 3.11...

$ virtualenv -p ~/.local/share/mise/installs/python/3.11/bin/python env

Now we can fly...

$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ ansible -i inventory all -m ping

Use

To set up a fresh server, create the user and set up sshd:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory -l ulmo playbook-init.yml

Then run the rest of the setup:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory -l ulmo -K --vault-id .vault_pass playbook.yml

Secrets

$ echo "password" > .vault_pass # not actual password :)
$ ansible-vault edit --vault-id .vault_pass vars/vault.yml

Run just one playbook

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory -l ulmo -K --vault-id .vault_pass playbooks/sites/org.tasuki.gallery.yml

Manually

Afaics right now, the following need manual setup:

• gallery.tasuki.org: all teh photo files
• tmp.tasuki.org: all teh random files
• domains.tasuki: the listed.json

Develop

$ sudo apt install virtualbox vagrant
$ vagrant up

Provision

$ vagrant provision
$ ansible-playbook -i inventory -l dev --vault-id .vault_pass playbook.yml

Test

1. Put something along the lines of 127.0.0.1 tasuki.org into /etc/hosts.
2. Visit something like http://tasuki.org:1080/ or https://tasuki.org:1443/