This is a small improvement for the copy tasks in the static directories
As the role currently works, the whole static directory is rsynced into every new subdomain directory, which leads to additional disk usage of ~ 154 MB for each subdomain in a basic (GTN) Galaxy setup.
With this improvement, several static subdirectories are symlinked and all files inside dist are symlinked, which reduces the disk usage per subdomain to ~ 2.3 MB.
However the disadvantage of this is:
more extensive logs; each symlink needs to be checked and is logged by ansible, around 200 per subdomain, the galaxy_themes_no_symlink_logs just reduces the extent, but ansible still prints one line per file and subdomain
slightly slower playbook runs; synchronize for the whole folder is faster than invoking an ansible operation for each file and we don't get rid of the synchronize fully, because we would need to create multiple subdirectories manually and iterate over them with symlink tasks
To solve this conflict, I added variables that let the user decide weather to use the symlink feature and reduce the logs or not
This is a small improvement for the copy tasks in the static directories As the role currently works, the whole static directory is
rsynced into every new subdomain directory, which leads to additional disk usage of ~ 154 MB for each subdomain in a basic (GTN) Galaxy setup.With this improvement, several static subdirectories are symlinked and all files inside
distare symlinked, which reduces the disk usage per subdomain to ~ 2.3 MB.However the disadvantage of this is:
galaxy_themes_no_symlink_logsjust reduces the extent, but ansible still prints one line per file and subdomainsynchronizefor the whole folder is faster than invoking an ansible operation for each file and we don't get rid of thesynchronizefully, because we would need to create multiple subdirectories manually and iterate over them with symlink tasksTo solve this conflict, I added variables that let the user decide weather to use the symlink feature and reduce the logs or not