General Plan

[arm4b]

Ansible deployment repo definitely needs some polishing/testing/improvements for mass-use.

The big point is to polish & publish it on Ansible galaxy (public hub) to get some visibility in the community. Another good thing are real CI Integration tests, for better maintainability.

TODO:

Part 1

• Check for minimum requirements like memory (disk space for Mongo?)
• Version check before install (check if 13.5.99 version is available)
• stable, unstable support (besides of numeric 0.12.1 version)
• Vagrantfile
• Refactor all variables, add st2_ prefix (best practice for Ansible Galaxy)
• Upgrade to higher st2 version as well as downgrade should work
• Fix Upstart
• Upstart N action-runners
• Initial Docs

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• Support New packages
• Add WebUI installation
• Use external/3rd party Ansible Galaxy roles for PostgreSQL/Mongo/RabbitMQ
• Tag all tasks, split into logical groups
• Idempotence (playbook re-run shouldn't change anything unless new st2 version is available)
• CI tests for better maintainability (Test-kitchen?, CircleCI?)
• Extend list of variables/options to configure
• Ability to configure with existing/remote installations of Mongo, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL
• Publish on Ansible galaxy Publish on Ansible galaxy #12
  • Polish, Refactor, Follow best practices
  • Distribution
    • Ship it as single stackstorm.stackstorm https://galaxy.ansible.com/StackStorm/stackstorm/
    • Split into: st2, st2mistral, st2web, st2chatops independent roles (v1.0 ??)
  • Ansible Galaxy Docs, Examples
• More distros to support (currently Ubuntu is supported only)

[cognifloyd]

This has "Use external/3rd party Ansible Galaxy roles for PostgreSQL/Mongo/RabbitMQ" checked, but those changes have been removed.

[arm4b]

@cognifloyd Updated, thanks.
In fact, we used some external galaxy roles before. That was a long time ago when we supported just Trusty in ansible-st2.

With all the 4(6) distros we have now: Trusty, Xenial, CentOS/RHEL 6, CentOS/RHEL 7 in our roles it doesn't make sense anymore to use external galaxy roles, since it's hard to find the role that will work for all the distros in the way we want.