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ansible-nginx-uwsgi-supervisor
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An Ansible role to setup and manage a UWSGI app via supervisor, and served up on a NGINX web server. The goal of this
role is to make deployment of WSGI app as a simple and sane as possible. Additionally the role provides sane defaults
for logging and folder structure setup.
Requirements
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- aptitude or python-apt (required by apt tasks)
- python > 2.5 (required by ini_file tasks)
This role is designed to work against a modern Ubuntu system. (Tested on Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04) It should
theoretically work on older versions of Ubuntu or Debian based systems.
Role Variables
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There are a few crucial variables that you need to configure for your particular WSGI powered app. They are broken up
into sections and described below:
### App Settings
- app_name:
- The name of WSGI app to manage via this role.
- Used as a prefix through out the role.
- app_root_path:
- The path to the root folder of the app.
- Default: {{ web_root_path }}/{{ app_name }}_webapp"
### NGINX
- app_nginx_hostname:
- The DNS hostname that the application serves.
- Default: localhost
- app_nginx_app_static:
- The path to the static elements of the site (templates, CSS, images, etc.)
- Default: app_root_path/app_name/static/
### UWSGI
- app_uwsgi_port:
- The port number that the WSGI runs on and accepts requests forwarded from NGINX.
- Default: 8001
- app_uwsgi_executable:
- The method executed by UWSGI to create a WSGI running app. Usually a WSGI factory method or module in the app.
- Default: app:make_wsgi_app()
### General Web:
These variables are not as crucial to configure. They do give good defaults for configuring the system in a consistent,
POSIX/LSB-friendly and user-friendly manner. See the section on Default File Structure for more details.
- web_root_path:
- The root of the entire web app structure include configuration and logging.
- Default: /srv/www
- web_server_group:
- The user group responsible for starting, stopping and managing the web and app servers on the target machine.
- Default: www-data
### Main (Internal) Variables
The following variables are part of the internals of the role. However if you really want to, you can tweak them to
work with your setup:
- web_user:
- The non-root user who is allowed to control web + app servers on the target machine.
- Default: current user
- virtualenv_root_path:
- The common root directory of Python virtual environments associated with running the
UWSGI app + server.
- Default: /srv/www/virtualenvs/
- uwsgi_venv:
- The virtual environment where UWSGI is installed.
- Default: virtualenv_root/uwsgi
- app_venv:
- The virtual environment where the dependencies of the WSGI app is installed.
- Default: virtualenv_root/app_name
- nginx_app_conf:
- The filename of the NGINX configuration for the app.
- Default: app_name_uwsgi_nginx.conf
- supervisor_app_config:
- The filename of the supervisor configuration for the app.
- Default: app_name_supervisor.conf
- uwsgi_config_path:
- The path to the UWSGI configurations.
- Default: /srv/www/config/uwsgi
- uwsgi_app_ini:
- The filename of the UWSGI INI configuration for the app.
- Default: app_name_uwsgi.ini
- uwsgi_service_name:
- The name of the UWSGI setup for the app according to supervisor.
- Default: app_name_uwsgi
Example Playbook
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The simplest way to include the role in your playbook is to copy the below configuration. Remember to modify the
app_name, nginx_hostname and uwsgi_app_executable parameters especially.
- hosts: servers
sudo: yes
roles:
- { role: ansible-nginx-uwsgi-supervisor,
app_name: app,
app_nginx_hostname: app.domain.net,
app_uwsgi_port: 8080,
app_uwsgi_executable: "app.build:make_wsgi_app()" }
A comprehensive example can be found in the [ansible-rookeries role]
(https://bitbucket.org/dorianpula/ansible-rookeries) that uses this role as a base to deploy a Flask-based webapp.
Default File Structure
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By default the role will organize files in the following directory structure:
/srv/www
├── config
│   ├── nginx -> /etc/nginx
│   ├── supervisor -> /etc/supervisor
│   └── uwsgi
├── logs
│   ├── nginx -> /var/log/nginx
│   ├── supervisor -> /var/log/supervisor
│   └── uwsgi
├── app_webapp
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   └── app
└── virtualenvs
├── app
└── uwsgi
License
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BSD
Author Information
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Dorian Pula
- twitter: @dorianpula
- email: dorian.pula at amber-penguin.software.ca
- www: http://amber-penguin-software.ca
This role is a spin-off of the technology developed for the [Rookeries project] (http://rookeri.es/)