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It seems no one has written a blog post on creating dynamic inventory scripts for Ansible in a while. I feel this topic could use an update as some of the information I found was incomplete or out of date. My goal is was convert Terraforms’s tfstate data from DigitalOcean to a usable inventory...
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Today, I broke this website while testing some minor changes to the deployment scripts. I tried to figure out what went wrong (I messed up something with Apache while trying to renew the SSL cert). I couldn’t get it sorted out so I blew up the droplet (VM, EC2 instance, whatever) and re-executed...
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Todays changes are around reducing excess memory consumption by php-fpm with the hopes of preventing swapping and low memory alerts. https://github.com/seaburr/WordPressOnDigitalOcean/commit/b37a43e0616aef7ba390b6fb9686be2e9d71df58
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This project hasn’t been touched in a few months so last night I embarked to give it a spin. It failed. Miserably. So I went bug-hunting and got it working again. Resolved Issues centos-base Removed packages no longer available that were causing role to fail. Added package Glances to replace...
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I ran into an issue the other day with Ansible while provisoning a Windows machine. After installing InstallShield 2015 SAB, Ansible copies a small license file configuration file into the installation directory. That’s the configuration. Should be easy right? Not in this case. I was confounded...
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“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...
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“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...
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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...
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“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...
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“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. … →
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“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...