DEPLOY.md

Create Virtual Machine on EC2

Create an Amazon EC2 instance using Ubuntu 14.04 AMI

Creating Virtual Machine on Host Machine(Optional for *nix users)

Install vagrant.

You will also need a virtual machine provider. VirtualBox is a recommended provider.

Initialize a virtual machine. ubuntu/trusty64 is one default image. A list of other virtual machine images can be found here.

vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64

Start up the virtual machine.

vagrant up

Then

vagrant ssh

You should be able to connect to the machine.

Ansible Server setup

Let's setup some stuff first

We want to create a master server that runs Ansible. First, use a binary package manager to setup some basic stuff missing.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install git make vim python-dev python-pip libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev

Now get ansible itself.

sudo pip install ansible

Test ansible

ansible all -m ping

Note, you should not expect to see anything working, quite yet, this just makes sure, python, etc. is setup properly.

Setting up ssh keys

Create a keys/node0.key file that contains the private_key of the EC2 instance. You may need to chmod 500 keys/node0.key.

Creating an inventory file

Create a inventory file that contains something like the following. Note use EC2's instance's public ip and private_key:

node0 ansible_ssh_host=35.163.251.8 ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu ansible_ssh_private_key_file=./keys/node0.key

Testing connection

Now, run the ping test again to make sure you can actually talk to the EC2 instance!

ansible all -m ping -i inventory -vvvv

Update your environment variables

# Edit .bash_profile to have:
export GTOKEN="<github-token>"
export BOT_TOKEN="<slacktoken>"
# Then reload
$ source ~/.bash_profile

Run your playbook file:

ansible-playbook -i inventory -vvv playbook.yml

The Bot should be up and running once the ansible script is completed successfully.