CSGIS GeoNode installation with Ansible

GeoNode Master on Ubuntu 18.04

This Ansible playbook aims to install GeoNode by use of geonode-project to an Ubuntu Server 18.04 (Bionic). It tries to stay close to the installation instructions docs: http://docs.geonode.org/en/master/tutorials/install_and_admin/geonode_install/index.html The tasks are currently quite low level using only one role. For a more versatile playbook visit: https://github.com/GeoNode/ansible-geonode

Prerequisites

- Install Ansible https://www.ansible.com/
- Install Python on your target instance:  $ sudo apt install python-minimal

File / Directory overview

• site.yml: the Top-Level playbook which includes plays from ./task and dictates the order.
• hosts: the inventory file (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/user_guide/intro_inventory.html)
• ./templates: J2 templates for Apache, Django, Geoserver, Tomcat. These are filled with vars from ./group_vars/all and copied by template module.
• ./assets: Has currently one file with GeoServer build information. Will be removed after geonode build server is introduced again.
• ./tasks: the different plays. Have a look at the GeoNode install docs. You will find similar chapters

Installing

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/csgis/geonode_ansible.git

Add the user and key settings used for installation to your hosts file.

Pay special attention here! The user gets ownership of several files/folders and should be member of sudoers.

[geonode]
geonode     ansible_ssh_port=2222     ansible_ssh_host=127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=ssh  ansible_ssh_user=geonode ansible_ssh_private_key_file=∞/.ssh/private_key

Edit the variables depending on your needs

vim ./group_vars/all

Get familiar with the tasks in:

$ ls ./tasks

Get familiar with the main playbook and the order tasks are run

$ cat ./site.yml

Run the main playbook which (includes other tasks) and keep fingers crossed

ansible-playbook -v -i hosts site.yml

Steps after finishing installation

• log into geonodes admin interface with admin/admin and change the admin credentials
• the geoserver password is written plain to /data/geoserver-data/security/usergroup/default/user.xml we can enrypt it easily by visiting the geoserver gui and navigate to 'User,Group,Roles' (left menu) -> User/groups tabs -> admin user and save it again without changing anything.

Roadmap

• Tidy up
• check file permissions
• add https support

Contributing

... is very welcome

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.