community_docnow_io

Community Docnow Installer is the ansible installer for community.docnow.io but can be used to install the DocNow Appraisal Application with a few modifications. This repository assumes a remote UNIX like OS host. We are using the Google Cloud Platform Virtual Machine in this repository.

• System requirements
• Installing

Controller System Requirements

• Ansible (check for version on Pipfile)
• Python (check for verion on .tool-versions)

Remote System Requirements

• Unix-like OS (Windows isn't fully supported);
• Node 12.*
• Web-server (Passenger (tested heavily on) Nginx);
• Database (PostgreSQL);
• Key/Value Store (Redis);

Installing

• On your Ansible Controller System make sure you've installed Ansible

• Clone this repository 😉 and cd into the cloned repository

• Copy group_vars/gcp/prod.yml.example to group_vars/gcp/prod.yml

  • if you look at .gitignore you will note the the new group_vars/gcp/prod.yml file will not be committed

  • if you will be using a bastion host -we recommend this- to connect to your virtual machine

  • if you do not intend to use a bastion host you can ignore this step

• Copy hosts.example to a new file hosts with cp hosts.example hosts

  • if you look at .gitignore you will note the the new hosts file will not be committed

  • edit the file with the IP address of your Virtual Machine.

• Install docnow with the following by running the step below two times:

ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook/community_docnow.yml

• Yes that's right. There is a known bug where the first time this runs it will error out during the ""install modules"" task. If you run it a second time the step will not error out. Upon completion go to the IP address you entered in your hosts file.