Ansible
“Done. For now…” All of my goals for the first re-architecture of this website are now complete. This evening I fixed the backup script, added a role that installed EFF’s certbot, and updated the README to reflect the current status. You can see what’s new here...
Ansible
“Baby steps.” I’ve added a single change today. There’s new role that will install and configure the DigitalOcean monitoring agent. In the coming days, I’ve got a few more items to wrap up. Once those (minor) missing pieces are in place, I will call this project done and move on to something...
Ansible
I can’t believe it’s been over two weeks since I touched this project. So far, things have been good. I took a look at AWS with the intent of redoing this project on Lightsail. I assumed it would be cheaper. Unfortunately, it won’t be. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth the effort, but it...
Ansible
“Bootstrapped.” Last night, I migrated this website onto its new infrastructure! The tooling I’ve been working for the last week has become feature-complete enough that it was used to create the database, droplet, and storage volume this site now uses. There was some manual work (SSL...
Ansible
“Biting off more than I can chew.” As of Sunday, I had gotten droplet creation, volume storage, and a good bit of the base OS setup work handled. The major missing piece was the creating the database. I am happy to say that work is now complete, but it’s not without bumps, warts, and bruises. … →
Ansible
“Automate all the things!” This weekend I’ve been busy laying much of the groundwork requires to be able to re-deploy this website. In part one, I provided a diagram that showed how the entire website, including the database, is deployed on a single droplet (VM). While this model has worked well...
Cloud
We’re onto part two! Luckily, this is a simple change. The VM that runs this website is on DigitalOcean. It’s so old (3 years) that it was only provisioned with 1CPU/512MB of memory. This has been sufficient but it’s a tight squeeze with the reverse proxy and MySQL shoehorned onto the same VM....
Cloud
Let’s embark on a journey to re-architect this website to something that is more resilient. Currently, the entire website runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet. Backups are handled through a Bash script that zips up the application directory, dumps the DB, and tars up the output. This could be...
VMware
It appears that the automated install of CentOS 8 does not work correctly in the latest version of VMware Workstation Pro 15.5 (15.5.0 build-14665864 at time of writing). I’m not surprised considering it’s not even an option in the drop down but it’s good to know that there’s a workaround for...
I consider a role to be a reusable, (mostly) standalone component to be consumed within a playbook. For instance, we have several different tools which require JDK, so we have a single role called install-oracle-jdk which downloads the JDK, installs it, updates the cacerts with some of our...
Atlassian
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be doing write-ups on how I upgrade some of our developer tools. Specifically, I’ll focus on the Atlassian applications I manage, but the process for our other tools (like Artifactory, SonarQube, etc.) is largely the same and most of the Ansible Roles are common...
Random
I was listening to the 99PI from last week and it reminded me of a childhood friend who had MS. Unfortunately, he passed away a few years ago. He was a year younger than I was but we both had a mutual love of video games. I remember carrying him up my front porch and setting him … →