Restore Geonode with Vagrant + Ansible

In this project, we developed a tool to automate the installation of Geonode 2.4 for production and its enviroment by using Vagrant and Ansible.

Prerequisites:

1. Install git;
2. Install Vagrant.

Quick start:

1. Open a terminal tab at the location where you want to clone the project and run:

$ git clone https://github.com/MalawiGeospatialTools/restore_geonode.git

2. Initialize Vagrant:

$ vagrant init

3. Move Vagrantfile_prj content to default Vagrantfile created with vagrant init:

  $ mv Vagrantfile_prj Vagrantfile
 

4. Open in a text editor ansible_variables.yml and set your entries for Geonode superuser name, email and password:

geonode_super_usr: <super_user-name>
geonode_super_usr_email: <super_user_email>
geonode_super_usr_pwd: <super_user_pwd>

You can also set a custom IP address of the remote host. The default is:

node_ip: 10.0.15.11

If you need to change this address, you must also update the remote host network identifier in the Vagrantfile:

node1_config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "10.0.15.11"

5. Create and configure your Vagrant environment according to the Vagrantfile:

$ vagrant up

This will launch two machines (mgmt and node1), install Ansible on the management node and copy over the project files; 6. Log into the management node by running:

$ vagrant ssh mgmt

7. You are now logged in as the vagrant user and sitting in its home directory:

vagrant@mgmt:~$

8. Setup SSH trust between the nodes mgmt and node1:

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048

if you do not have particular needs, just press ``` <return> ``` when asked to respond to the prompts. Then:

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ssh-keyscan node1 >> .ssh/known_hosts

9. Launch the Ansible script to configure and install Geonode on node1 (the pwd is ```vagrant```):

vagrant@mgmt:~$ ansible-playbook geonode-install.yml --ask-pass

Beaware that it takes at least 8 minutes to complete the installation.

10. Once the script has successfully completed, you can start using Geonode by opening a browser window and go to:

10.0.15.11