Ansible Role: TestLink

This is an Ansible role for deploying TestLink with Nginx, PHP 7 (php-fpm), and MySQL 5.6+ on Ubuntu and Debian systems.

Requirements

To use this TestLink role on Debian 8, include tasks/pre_tasks.yml in the pre_tasks section to use MySQL server 5.6.

pre_tasks:
  - name: manually add MySQL repository
    include: tasks/pre_tasks.yml

roles:
  - williamyeh.nginx
  - chusiang.php7
  - geerlingguy.mysql

Role Variables

If you have a separate database server, set setup_local_database to false to skip installing a database server.

setup_local_database: true

# TestLink
testlink_tarball_version: '1.9.17'
testlink_tarball_url: 'https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/testlink/TestLink%201.9/TestLink%201.9.17/testlink-1.9.17.tar.gz'
testlink_tarball_md5: '7183c30133fecc18c8074142016b6a44'
testlink_var_path: '/var/testlink'
testlink_db_name: 'testlinkdb'
testlink_db_user: 'testlinkdb'
testlink_db_password: 'cUv4UK6ardC6cMGL'
testlink_db_host: 'localhost'

# Nginx
nginx_user: 'www-data'
nginx_testlink_path: '/usr/share/nginx/testlink'
nginx_server_name: 'testlink.example.tw'
nginx_enable_ssl: false

# PHP-FPM
php_owner: '{{ nginx_user }}'
php_group: '{{ nginx_user }}'
php_max_execution_time: '3000'
php_session_gc_maxlifetime: '60000'

# MySQL 5.6.x
#
# - TestLink 1.9.15 requires mysql-server 5.6.x
#  - https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS/testlink-code
mysql_root_password: ''
mysql_root_password_update: 'no'
mysql_packages:
  - 'mysql-server'
  - 'mysql-client'
  - 'python-mysqldb'

Dependencies

Here’s a list of other roles you need:

• williamyeh.nginx
• chusiang.php7
• geerlingguy.mysql

If you need to change the apt mirror, use the chusiang.switch-apt-mirror role.

Example Playbook

Here's how to use this role with an example:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: chusiang.testlink }

Docker Container

This repository contains a Dockerized version of Ansible, published to the public Docker Hub through an automated build.

Docker Hub: chusiang/testlink

Images

• ubuntu-16.04 (latest)
• ubuntu-14.04 (End of Life)
• debian-8

Usage

• To run the container:

  $ docker run --name=testlink -p 8080:80 -d chusiang/testlink
  

• To check the status of the container:

  $ docker ps
  CONTAINER ID    IMAGE                COMMAND      CREATED           STATUS           PORTS                            NAMES
  

• Access TestLink on the web by going to http://localhost:8080.

• Log in using the default admin account, where the username and password are both admin.

License

Copyright (c) chusiang from 2016-2018 under the MIT license.

[^1]: Be careful with TestLink 1.9.15 as it requires PHP > 5.4 and MySQL 5.6.x. (more)

[^2]: Debian 8 only comes with MySQL 5.5.x by default, so we use the MySQL official development repo to install MySQL 5.6.x. (more)