CDH Ansible

Ansible playbooks and roles for deploying Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) applications to Princeton University Library (PUL) managed virtual machines.

This site is generated from the Markdown files under docs/ in the cdh-ansible repository. For contributor setup and playbook usage, see the project README.

Contents

• Deployment Guide
  • Deployment Environments and Default Branches
  • Method 1: Deploy with Ansible Tower Web Interface
  • Method 2: Command-Line Deployment
• Applications
  • CDH Web
  • Princeton Geniza Project
  • Prodigy
  • eScriptorium / htr2hpc
• Roles
  • deploy_user
  • nodejs
• Architecture Decision Records
  • Use ADR to document architectural decisions
  • Standardize on use of “staging” for non-production application environment
  • Use inventory directory for hosts and group variables
  • Set cdh-info GitHub deploy token as default
  • Use vaulted variables in group vars instead of encrypting entire files
• Host Inventory
  • Application hosts
  • Other hosts
• Variables
  • Inventory group variables
• Access to PUL VMs
  • Application-specific documentation
  • Deployment and Infrastructure
  • General
  • Access to PUL VMs (How to Add a New Person to PUL VMs)