Ansible Deployment

Owned by Yaw Nti-Addae
Last updated: Aug 13, 2019 by Deb Weigand

Target release2.2
Epic GDM-326 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Document status
DRAFT
Document owner

Yaw Nti-Addae

Designer
Yaw Nti-Addae
Tech lead
Roy Petrie
Technical writers
Roy Petrie
QADeb Weigand

Objective

  1. Unify deployment to environments within and outside of Cornell
  2. Streamline deployment scripts to make it easy for system administrators to install GDM
  3. Clear separation of Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines to make then more modular

Success metrics

GoalMetric
Continuous Deployment
  • Convert all deployment scripts to deployment pipeline
  • Create configurable playbooks
  • Test deployment pipeline by deploying GOBii-GDM to QA-test and AWS environments
Deployment Integration
  • Work with GOBii personnel to connect Bamboo to deployment pipeline
  • Develop Web UI to allow users to configure deployment pipeline, and if possible run deployment (Phase II - new req needed for this)
  • Provide documentation of scripts and tools
  • Train GOBii personnel on how to extend Ansible and use tools
Deployable tools
  • GOBii-GDM
  • Portal
  • Timescope
  • KDCompute (optional)
  • ownCloud (optional)
  • Portainer (optional)
    • Sherpa (optional)
  • User manager (optional)

Assumptions

  1. Packing of the artifacts will be done by Bamboo
  2. This deployment pipeline is for vanilla GDM deployment 
    1. other technologies may be deployed for other hotfixes
  3. System Administrators will manually provide configuration variables before executing deployment pipeline

Requirements

#RequirementUser StoryImportanceJira IssueNotes
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HIGH


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User interaction and design

Open Questions

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