GleSYS API/Ansible Demo

This is an automated procedure to:

• create a server with provided FQDN
• set DNS record for the specified domain
• set PTR record to the newly created servers IP
• install WordPress, base install with Ansible (http://docs.ansible.com)

Installation

Step 1 – API Key

• create a GleSYS API key with IP, DOMAIN and SERVER privilegies (Permissions / Allow all on Domain, IP and Server)
• use a domain which is maintained on your GleSYS account (record should not pre-exist)

Step 2 - Requirements (where you initiate the script)

• Ansible 1.7
• Sshpass
• PWGen
• XMLStarlet
• Curl
• Python Passlib Library
• Nmap
• Git-core

Below are installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu and MacOS X. However, it's possible to keep on using your preferred OS, just find the above packages and you'll be good to go.

Install these on Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get install python-dev build-essential python-pip pwgen xmlstarlet curl sshpass nmap python-passlib
pip install ansible

Install these on MacOS X (using Homebrew)

brew install ansible
brew install xmlstarlet
brew install nmap
brew install pwgen
brew install https://raw.github.com/eugeneoden/homebrew/eca9de1/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb (Homebrew doesn't want to merge this https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/9577 but it's what Ansible uses)
brew install python
pip install passlib

Step 3 - Download and run the script

First download the script:

git clone https://github.com/GleSYS/wp-auto-deploy.git

Then add your API credentials to deploy.sh where it says:

#API Credentials
USER=PLACE_YOUR_ACCOUNT_HERE
KEY=PLACE_YOUR_KEY_HERE

Finally, run the script (be sure to meet the requirements above):

./deploy.sh FQDN (for example: ./deploy.sh blog.domain.com)

This will be installed on the remote host

• Debian 7 as template (you can edit the Ansible Playbook to make it compatible with other distributions)
• Apache 2.2
• MySQL 5.5
• PHP 5.4.0
• Postfix (SMTP)
• ProFTPd (FTP Server)
• Latest WordPress (post-setup config is done with http://wp-cli.org)

GleSYS API calls used for this demo

• Create Server
• List Domain Records
• Add Domain Record
• Update PTR for IP

Support

• watch this instructional video: Server Provisioning with GleSYS API & Ansible
• if you need further help send an email to [email protected]