This is an Azure template to create two Ubuntu VMs:
- One MySQL server (v5.6)
- One MongoDB server (v2.6) and one horizontally scalable application server behind a load balancer.
You can learn more about Open edX here:
This template will complete quickly, but the full Open edX install usually takes > 1 hour. To follow along with the progress, ssh into the VM application server and tail -f /var/log/azure/openedx-scalable-install.log
The first application server (VM-APP0) provisions all of the other machines. The loadbalancer allows ssh to pass through to this virtual machine over port 2222. So use:
ssh -p2222 YOUR_USER_NAME@YOUR_INSTNACES_DNS_NAME.cloudapp.azure.com
to access. Once inside VM-APP0, you can ssh into any other VM using its private IP address.
- Application servers (1-9): 10.0.0.10 to 10.0.0.19
- MySQL: 10.0.0.20
- MongoDB: 10.0.0.30
After the install has successfully completed, Supervisor will automatically start LMS (the student facing site) on port 80 and Studio (the course authoing site) on port 18010. Both ports have already been made accessible, so you can simply visit them by opening a browser and navigating to:
- LMS: http://YOUR_INSTANCES_DNS_NAME.cloudapp.azure.com
- Studio: http://YOUR_INSTANCES_DNS_NAME.cloudapp.azure.com:18010
Many Open edX features can be configured by creating and/or editing the file in /edx/app/edx_ansible/server-vars.yml.
After you have added your customizations, save your file, then run:
/edx/bin/update edx-platform YOUR_EDX_PLATFORMS_BRANCH_NAME
A sample server-vars.yml file has been added to this repo to change the site's title to: "Open edX multiserver on Azure."
A method for changing the design of Open edX without forking the entire edx-platform repo has been developed by Stanford. You can read more about configuring an Open edX theme and can find the edx-theme repo.
For more info, check the Open edX Github Wiki on managing fullstack