Plone’s Ansible Playbook

Description

Use Ansible to provision a full-stack Plone server on Ubuntu/Debian or CentOS servers.

• Introduction
  • TL;DR
  • Automated-server provisioning
  • If you need to log in
• Provisioning a Plone server
  • The stack
  • What about other apps?
  • Major choices
• Requirements
  • Target server
  • Local setup
  • Quick setup
  • Ansible role requirements
  • Remote setup
• Setting up the Playbook
  • Clone or fork-and-clone
  • Picking up required roles
• Customizing the deployment
  • Ansible inventory variables
  • Customizing buildout configuration
  • A sample strategy
• The Configuration File
• Testing the Playbook with Vagrant
• Common errors
• Using the Vagrant
• Port Mapping
• Live host deployment
  • Creating a host file
  • Running your playbook
  • Updating
  • Firewall
  • Passwords
  • Hotfixes, Updates, Upgrades
• Configuration options
  • Ansible options
  • System options
• Plone options
  • plone_initial_password
  • plone_buildout_cfg
  • plone_target_path
  • plone_var_path
  • plone_buildout_git_repo
  • plone_major_version
  • plone_version
  • plone_python_version
  • plone_client_count
  • plone_zodb_cache_size
  • plone_zserver_threads
  • plone_client_max_memory
  • plone_hot_monitor
  • plone_additional_eggs
  • plone_sources
  • plone_zcml_slugs
  • plone_additional_versions
  • plone_install_zeoserver
  • plone_zeo_ip
  • plone_zeo_port
  • plone_client_base_port
  • plone_environment_vars
  • plone_client_extras
  • plone_client1_extras
  • plone_zeo_extras
  • plone_zope_conf_additional
  • plone_client_tcpcheck
  • plone_client_base_tcpcheck_port
  • plone_extra_parts
  • plone_buildout_extra
  • plone_buildout_extra_dir
  • plone_autorun_buildout
  • plone_buildout_cache_url
  • plone_buildout_cache_file
  • plone_create_site
  • plone_site_id
  • plone_extension_profiles
  • plone_default_language
  • supervisor_instance_discriminator
  • plone_download_requirements_txt
  • plone_restart_after_buildout
  • Cron jobs
  • plone_pack_at
  • plone_keep_days
  • plone_backup_at
  • plone_keep_backups
  • plone_keep_blob_days
  • plone_backup_path
  • plone_rsync_backup_options
• Load-balancer options
  • install_loadbalancer
  • loadbalancer_port
  • loadbalancer_healthcheck
  • loadbalancer_listen_extra
  • loadbalancer_options
• Caching proxy options
  • install_proxycache
  • proxycache_port
  • proxycache_size
  • proxycache_method
  • proxy_cache_block_basic_auth
  • Cache controls
• Web-server options
  • install_webserver
  • Virtual hosting setup
  • Certificates
  • Redirections, etc.
  • Inside-out hosting
  • rewrite_server_name
  • Status and monitoring
  • You should know
  • SSL Settings
• Mail-server options
  • install_mailserver
  • Relaying
  • mail_hostname
  • Extras
• Monitoring options
  • install_muninnode
  • munin_node_extra
  • install_logwatch
  • install_fail2ban
• Multiple Plone Servers
  • Moving beyond four
• Restart script
  • Restart script options
  • warm_paths
  • plone_restart_pre_script
  • plone_restart_post_script
• Audit: Finding Leftover Files
  • Unmaintained Files