Pacifica

This Ansible role defines configuration for deploying Pacifica services in an Ansible managed infrastructure.

Requirements

There are no requirements for this role currently. However, the Pacifica services do depend on other services depending on configuration. So, please be aware if you configure a service to use PostgreSQL you should configure PostgreSQL prior to including this role as part of your deployment.

Supported Platforms

Role Variables

The role variables are to install Python on the different distributions. This can be overridden by setting the setup_packages and python_packages to a list of custom packages in a default.yml in a consuming role. Alternatively, if the consuming playbook is installing python by other means, you can set external_python to any value and the python installation task will be skipped.

The other role variables are default configurations for the different Pacifica services. Each Pacifica service has different configuration requirements. These configuration requirements are consistent between services and can be configured the same way across services. For example, both the ingest and metadata services require databases and those are managed by the same interface. However, the ingest process requires a Celery backend where the metadata does not.

Role Defaults

The role defaults are there to control the user driven configuration of the Pacifica services. Each service configuration should be a dictionary named in the pacifica_available_services dictionary. The service configurations are then referenced by items in the pacifica_enabled_services list.

Dependencies

There are currently no dependencies for this role. However, if you configure a Pacifica service to use a MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store its state then you are responsible for making sure that MySQL or PostgreSQL service is deployed and configured somewhere in your infrastructure. This includes other optional dependencies like ElasticSearch or Redis.

Example Playbook

Including the role is similar to other ansible roles. There are examples of this in the molecule subdirectory for picking out specific services to deploy on specific systems.

Simple Example:

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - role: pacifica
           pacifica_enabled_services:
             - metadata
             - policy

License

LGPLv3

Author Information

Pacifica is a community lead effort and supporting these services are handled by the Ansible team. Some of those members are referenced below.

• David Brown dmlb2000@gmail.com: Primary Pacifica Architect
• Ian Smith gitbytes@gmail.com: Community Contributor