Ansible Role: Moodle

Installs Moodle (4.1+) on RedHat and Debian/Ubuntu servers. Tested with Ansible 6.0

Requirements

Needs to be a recent LTS release of Ubuntu or REL which have PHP 8.0+, Apache 2.4 and Postgres or Mysql installed.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

Dependencies

No dependencies if the host is installed and setup with a LAMP stack ( or similar ) environement. If you are required to install the full environment, I suggest you check:

• geerlingguy.php (Install of PHP 8.x or earlier)
• geerlingguy.apache (Installation of Apache 2.x)
• geerlingguy.postgresql (Installation of Postgres)
• geerlingguy.mysql (Installatiion of Mysql)

Example Playbook

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2017 by Laurent David, from Jeff Geerling roles templates author of Ansible for DevOps.

Testing

Prerequisites

You muse have the following installed:

• ansible

We have used Jeff Geerling's tests as a base which is in turn using extensively molecule. We are now using github action to run the tests at each commit (you can find them in the .github/workflow folder):

• lint.yml will just lint all project and check for any syntax error
• molecule.yml will run each scenario in turn and check if the ansible playbook is valid

Note: as installing Postgres and Mysql takes a while from the original Jeff Geerling image we have a process of prebuilding those images using packer each month. This process is done in the foler molecule-images that can be safely ignored if you are just looking for information about the role itself.

• Once the docker has been launch you can rerun the playbook by running:

    container_id=xxxxyyy
    docker exec --tty $container_id env TERM=xterm ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/roles/role_under_test/tests/test.yml

To test specific playbook such as the check_moodle.py part:

    container_id=xxxxyyy
    docker exec $container_id env TERM=xterm env ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1 ansible-playbook -i 'localhost,' -M /etc/ansible/roles/role_under_test/library /etc/ansible/roles/role_under_test/tests/test-check-moodle.yml

Library testing

There is a small module that checks if moodle is installed/configured in the library folder. More info in the README.md of the library folder.

#TODO

• Tags tasks
  • Pure setup without running moodle install (just folders and source code)
  • Install with moodle install,
  • ... some optional task such as change password, update, dump database, ...