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Ansible to provision a Discourse server
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AOGPN server

Ansible to provision a Discourse server for the Australian Open Government Partnership Civil Society Network.

Usage

You'll need a file called ansible_vault_pass.txt in the root of this repository that contains the right password in order to decrypt secret things like the SSL key.

Development

To bring up a local Vagrant box using VirtualBox to develop configuration changes:

vagrant up

Port 4443 is forwarded to the guest's HTTPS web server so you can connect to the Discourse instance locally at:

https://localhost:4443/

It's configured as forum.opengovernment.org.au so when you get things like email you'll need to manually copy the address back to one that will work locally.

Production

To provision the production server run:

ansible-playbook --user=root --inventory-file=hosts playbook.yml

Memory

We're deploying this to a server with 1 GB of RAM so we need to ensure it has 1 GB of swap. The Vagrant test box included in this repository just has 2 GB of RAM because it's fiddly to increase swap with Vagrant/VirtualBox.