Islandora Playbook¶

The Islandora Playbook (Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook) is a tool for installing Islandora Defaults on a single virtual machine. It can be used both as a Vagrant project to create a local development environment, and/or the Ansible playbook can be used directly to provision a local or remote server.

Basic Usage:¶

$ git clone -b dev https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook
$ cd islandora-playbook
$ vagrant up

Requirements¶

To create a local VM, download and install the following.

Virtual Box
Vagrant (version 2.0 or higher required)
Git
OpenSSL
Ansible (Tested on version 2.11+, versions back to 2.9 should work.)

Installing Git, OpenSSL, and Ansible on Ubuntu/Debian¶

Git and OpenSSL are available via apt. Ansible up to version 2.8.7. This is done best with pip, the python package manager:

# Install git and openssl
$ sudo apt-get install git
$ sudo apt-get install openssl
# If pip isn’t already available, run the following commands to install it
$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py --user
# Install ansible
$ pip install --user -Iv ansible

Installing Git, OpenSSL and Ansible on CentOS¶

Git and OpenSSL are available via yum. Most everything else can be installed in the same way.

$ sudo yum install git
$ sudo yum install openssl
# If pip isn’t already available, run the following commands to install it
$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py --user
# Install ansible
$ pip install --user -Iv ansible

Installing Git and Ansible on MacOS¶

OpenSSL is already pre-installed on MacOS. Git can be installed using XCode's command line tools (see below). Python and Pip can either be installed via the downloaded installer direct from the site (not shown below) or via Homebrew. For the installation of Ansible, consider using homebrew (see below).

# Use xcode-select to install command line components, including git
$ xcode-select --install
# Install homebrew
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
# Use homebrew to install ansible
$ brew install ansible

Installing a local development environment¶

Clone the islandora-playbook and use vagrant up to automatically provision a local environment. This method uses Vagrant, VirtualBox, and Ansible. Before provisioning a local environment, you should likely double check that no required ports are currently in use.

Clone the playbook¶

$ git clone -b dev https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook
$ cd islandora-playbook

Spin up with Vagrant¶

Before using vagrant up:

If building a CentOS box, you also need to install the vbguest additions with vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest.
If this is not your first time spinning up Islandora from this directory, and you want to get the latest code, you may want to clear cached ansible roles in roles/external rm -rf roles/external

Then, to spin up the machine:

vagrant up

Installing a remote environment¶

A remote environment can be provisioned by providing SSH credentials to islandora-playbook and using the ansible-galaxy installer instead of Vagrant. Some preparation of configuration entries in the inventory also need to be changed to be aware of the particulars of your remote environment; this includes:

Changing usernames and passwords to something more sensible than the default
Changing IP addresses to use the remote machine's actual IP
Changing Apache to serve at port 80 (as opposed to 8000, which we use for development purposes)

We're going to build up this new remote environment configuration from the default provided Vagrant configuration. To start, take the inventory for the vagrant development environment and make a copy of it. Be sure to give it an appropriate name. Here we're using example.

$ git clone https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook
$ cd islandora-playbook
$ cp -r inventory/vagrant inventory/example

Then you can update the following entries in the following files using your own information. If an entry does not exist in a file, just add it. Ansible will then use the value you provide instead of relying on its defaults.

We're using changeme to represent passwords and assume the server will be available at example.org, but you'll want to provide your own values.

group_vars/all/passwords.yml¶

drupal_db_password: changeme
drupal_account_pass: changeme
islandora_db_root_password: changeme
islandora_tomcat_password: changeme
islandora_syn_token: changeme
cantaloupe_admin_password: changeme

group_vars/crayfish.yml¶

crayfish_gemini_fedora_base_url: http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest
crayfish_houdini_fedora_base_url: http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest
crayfish_hypercube_fedora_base_url: http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest
crayfish_milliner_fedora_base_url: http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest
crayfish_milliner_drupal_base_url: http://example.org
crayfish_milliner_gemini_base_url: http://example.org/gemini
crayfish_homarus_fedora_base_url: http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest
crayfish_recast_fedora_base_url: http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest
crayfish_recast_drupal_base_url: http://example.org
crayfish_recast_gemini_base_url: http://example.org/gemini

group_vars/karaf.yml¶

For Alpaca, only the token.value and various URLs are of particular importance, but the entire configuration chunk is provided here for convenience.

alpaca_settings:
  - pid: ca.islandora.alpaca.http.client
    settings:
      token.value: changeme
  - pid: org.fcrepo.camel.indexing.triplestore
    settings:
      input.stream: activemq:topic:fedora
      triplestore.reindex.stream: activemq:queue:triplestore.reindex
      triplestore.baseUrl: http://example.org:8080/bigdata/namespace/islandora/sparql
  - pid: ca.islandora.alpaca.indexing.triplestore
    settings:
      error.maxRedeliveries: 10
      index.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-triplestore-index
      delete.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-triplestore-delete
      triplestore.baseUrl: http://example.org:8080/bigdata/namespace/islandora/sparql
  - pid: ca.islandora.alpaca.indexing.fcrepo
    settings:
      error.maxRedeliveries: 5
      node.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-content
      node.delete.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-delete
      media.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-media
      file.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-file
      file.delete.stream: activemq:queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-file-delete
      milliner.baseUrl: http://example.org/milliner/
      gemini.baseUrl: http://example.org/gemini/

alpaca_blueprint_settings:
  - pid: ca.islandora.alpaca.connector.houdini
    in_stream: activemq:queue:islandora-connector-houdini
    derivative_service_url: http://example.org/houdini/convert
    error_max_redeliveries: 5
    camel_context_id: IslandoraConnectorHoudini
  - pid: ca.islandora.alpaca.connector.homarus
    in_stream: activemq:queue:islandora-connector-homarus
    derivative_service_url: http://example.org/homarus/convert
    error_max_redeliveries: 5
    camel_context_id: IslandoraConnectorHomarus

group_vars/tomcat.yml¶

fcrepo_allowed_external_content:
  - http://example.org/
cantaloupe_HttpResolver_BasicLookupStrategy_url_prefix: http://example.org/

group_vars/webserver/apache.yml¶

This is where we specify that the webserver is listening on the default port 80, instead of the development machine port 8000.

apache_listen_port: 80

group_vars/webserver/drupal.yml¶

drupal_trusted_hosts:
  - ^localhost$
  - example.org
fedora_base_url: "http://example.org:8080/fcrepo/rest/"

group_vars/webserver/general.yml¶

openseadragon_iiiv_server: http://example.org:8080/cantaloupe/iiif/2
matomo_site_url: http://example.org

hosts¶

You'll need the SSH particulars for logging into your server in the hosts file. This example is set up to login as root using an SSH key. You'll need to get the details for logging into your remote server from your hosting provider (AWS, Digital Ocean, etc...) or your systems administrator if you're running the server in-house. See this page for more details about what you can put into a host file

default ansible_host=example.org ansible_port=22 ansible_user=root ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa'

Running the remote installer¶

First, you'll want to get the ansible roles that are needed for the version of Islandora you are trying to install. This can be done with

$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Then, depending on the operating system installed on the remote environment, you can use the following command for Ubuntu 16.04

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/production playbook.yml -e "islandora_distro=ubuntu/xenial64"

or for CentOS 7

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/production playbook.yml -e "islandora_distro=centos/7"

Troubleshooting¶

Out of date playbooks¶

Ansible caches the code used to provision the environment, so if you've already installed once you may not be getting the latest version of things even if you've git pull'd the latest playbook. The code is stored in roles/external, so if you want to clear it out you can remove these before attempting to provision an environment

$ rm -rf roles/external

Port clashes for local environments¶

When provisioning using a local environment, you should be aware of any ports that are already in use by your computer that are also going to be used by Vagrant, as these may clash and cause problems during and after provisioning. These include:

8000 (Apache)
8080 (Tomcat)
3306 (MySQL)
5432 (PostgreSQL)
8983 (Solr)
8161 (ActiveMQ)
8081 (API-X)

If there are port clashes for any of these, you will need to either find and replace them in the configuration .yml files under inventory/vagrant/group_vars, or provide new values for the different playbooks that support changing the ports (for example, postgresql_databases supports adding a port property which is currently simply unused). You will also need to replace the port forwarding values in Vagrantfile.

Additionally, Ansible attempts to use port 2200 for SSH. If this port is already in use, your local environment cannot be provisioned. To change this, set a new value for ansible_port in inventory/vagrant/hosts.

Help¶

If you run into any issues installing the environment, do not hesitate to email the mailing list to ask for help. If you think you've stumbled across a bug in the installer, please create an issue in the Islandora issue queue and give it an ansible tag.

Last update: April 13, 2022