Webapp

Deploy web application with buildpacks.

This roles deploys web applications in a PaaS-like environment using:

• Heroku buildpacks.
• Capistrano-like directories.
• Configuration options as environment variables.
• Systemd for process management.

Multiple buildpacks are supported to allow for applications that use multiple languages or need utilities written a different language from the main application.

Requirements

See meta/main.yml.

Role Variables

See defaults/main.yml.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Example:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - webapp

TODO

• Generalize use of env variables using env.d and ansible's assemble module.
• Support systemd alternatives, ie monit, supervisor, pm2, etc...
• Fix idempotency with capistrano-like directories.
• Document defaults.

Licence

Released under the MIT license.

Author Information

Luis Gracia while at EMBL-EBI:

• luis.gracia [at] ebi.ac.uk
• GitHub at luisico
• Galaxy at luisico