Setup: Server Provisioning

Hey Markus L.

Thanks for sharing it! Windows likes to make things harder than it should be :)

Cheers!

Hey Patrick,

I suppose you use requirements.yml file as we do in our screencast: https://symfonycasts.com/sc... . So, you can tweak the version constraint and install the new version of Ansistrano Deploy role. Unfortunately, I don't see any CHANGELOG there, so it's difficult to say if you would have any BC breaks or no after upgrade, but I think you can check descriptions to releases to get a clue what was changed since the version you've installed: https://github.com/ansistra...

I hope this helps!

Cheers!

Hi Victor,
Just to note that this method worked perfectly.
You need to change the name of the role to ansistrano.deploy as it mentions in the tutorial update (it's been changed on Galaxy) but it's working great at version 2.11 with ansible 2.9

Cheers
Patrick

Hey Patrick!

Thank you for confirming it works for you this way! Glad to hear it :)

Cheers!

Hey Krzysiek,

Actually, it's not much complicate than moving an empty project to Ansistrano. You basically need to do the same Symfony framework stuff, like we do in this course, e.g. build assets, clear and warmup the cache, run migrations, etc. Well, sure, it depends on your project complexity, but I think if you watch this course - you will have the exact vision of how complex would be to start using Ansistrano on your project, though I think it's still not too much complex.

and yes, your thoughts sound good to me. Sure, you will have to tweak your Ngixn host to point to a new directory, though, I think you can even avoid this if you make "/var/www/project/web" as a symlink to /var/www/project/current/web. But sure, better is to tweak your Nginx host to avoid 2 symlinks. Anyway, I think we covered MOST cases in this tutorial, so I don't think you will have many unique to your project things when will move your existent project to Ansistrano.

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Hey Milan,

Stay tuned, we'll answer your question a bit further in this course. Actually, thanks to the Ansible background, Ansistrano can handle multiple-server deployment as well. If you're wondering about it right now, take a look at: https://knpuniversity.com/s... . So we don't plan any releases on it because it's already released in this course ;)

Cheers!

Thank you so much! :)

You're welcome, Ansistrano really powerful due to Ansible :)

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Hey Cesar,

Yes, you can totally provision your prod server by yourself, but it probably depends on what screencast you're on. So, for the start of this tutorial, you need to download the course code and go to the start/ directory, where you can find ansible/playbook.yml file. Look over it to find out what you need to install. You can also look at finish/ directory to see the difference of what you will need to have on your prod server to the end of tutorial, but going through the tutorial we'll guide you to install more tools if it's needed. For example, on this page: https://knpuniversity.com/s... - we need to install NodeJS and Yarn on your prod server. So here's a list of packages you need to install at the start of this course:
- nginx
- redis
- zip
- unzip
- git
- mysql-server
- php7.1-cli
- php7.1-curl
- php7.1-fpm
- php7.1-intl
- php7.1-mysql
- php7.1-xml
- composer

And also set up date.timezone in php.ini. So all of that I get from start/ansible/playbook.yml file of course code downloaded archive.

Cheers!

Thanks Victor. I am in the first screencast of Ansistrano. So, I want to be sure that I am provisioning my server correctly. Can you tell me how can I check if my server has installed all the packages that you told me? I am using Amazon Linux in a EC2 instance. Sorry if my question is basic but this is my first time. I hope you can help me.

Hey Cesar,

Good question! I'd say run Ansible playbook... but you said you want to provision by yourself :) Seriously, running "ansible/playbook.yml" provision playbook you will see *what* was _changed_ (i.e. installed or updated) and _skipped_ (i.e. was already installed and up to date). So I'd recommend you to review your point of view.

Nevertheless, it's a bit tricky to check was it installed manually, because different packages have different approaches. For example, to check that Composer is installed and what version it has - run "composer --version" in console. To check PHP extensions - run "php -m | grep mysql" or any other extension you need instead of mysql. For Nginx - run "nginx -v", etc. I think you got the idea. Probably there's another, more proper, way to check some packages, but I don't know.

Cheers!

Thanks for the tips Victor. They helped me to provision my server. I am thinking to buy your screencast of Ansible but I am not sure yet. I will see.

Hey Cesar,

You're welcome! Yes, sure, it depends on how much automation do you need. Btw, if you're interested in several tutorials I'd recommend you to look at our monthly subscription but it's up to you.

If you have other questions - just let us know.

Cheers!

Hi Victor. At the end I have bought the Ansible tutorial for provisioning my server and it was a great purchase because it really saves me a lot of time. Now, I have provisioned my server and deployed my app using Ansible and Ansistrano. So, thank you for all your answers and suggestions!

Now, do you have any screencast where you explain how to configure an SSL in the Nginx server using Ansible? I want to put Let's Encrypt for having https. Please, let me know.

Hey Cesar,

I'm glad you like it! Ansible helps with my tasks a lot too ;)

What about configuring SSL - unfortunately, we do not have any screencasts about it yet, and probably do not have any plans on it in the nearest future. But, if you use AWS, you can take a look at AWS ELB, i.e. even if you use only one EC2 instance, you can configure ELB which will help you with SSL configuration - load balancer handle SSL for you. AFAIK, we do so for KnpU SSL certificate. But if you're not on AWS, then probably it's not an option for you.

Cheers!

Yo jian su!

Great question :). And yea... Ansible *can* do all of these things. But, it's not really another tool: Ansistrano is just an Ansible *role*. So, instead of you creating all the tasks necessary to clone your repository, clear the cache, change the symlinks, etc, those tasks already live inside the Ansistrano role. You can see the tasks here: https://github.com/ansistra.... It's actually pretty simple - you could even "steal" tasks from this and use Ansible directly :).

Cheers!