The document outlines a session at DrupalCon LA led by Jeff Geerling on using Ansible for deploying and managing Drupal infrastructure. It covers Ansible basics like inventory, ad-hoc commands, and playbooks, along with a demonstration of deploying Drupal 8 on a cluster of Raspberry Pis. Resources for further learning and discussions on related projects are also included.

1. Ansible for Drupal Infrastructure
& Deployments
BoF @ #DrupalConLA
Led by: Jeff Geerling
Technical Architect, Acquia
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/ "Automation shouldn't be your day job"
#ansible #pycon2014 /
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2. Agenda
1. Quick Intro to Ansible
2. Demo: Deploying Drupal 8 to the #Dramble
3. Drupal VM, Roundtable discussion, etc.

3. “Configuration management for humans.” (— Me, 2014)
Uses SSH
Secure, fast, simple
Don't need configuration management to manage your configuration
management.

4. Ansible 101
1. Inventory: Describe your infrastructure
2. Ad-Hoc commands: Run one-off tasks
3. Playbooks: "Infrastructure as code"

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/ Drupal 8 on a cluster of Raspberry Pis
#dramble /
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6. http://robmyers.org/cc-ironies/no_flash_photography_sign/
Please help me avoid the
Xenon Death Flash

7. Ad-Hoc commands
Have fun with RGB LEDs!
$ ansible webservers -a "rgb red" -s

8. Ad-Hoc commands
Have fun with RGB LEDs!
$ ansible webservers -a "rgb red" -s
Group
'Use sudo'
Command

9. Playbooks
---
- hosts: webservers
sudo: yes
tasks:
- name: Ensure PHP is installed.
apt: name=php5-common state=installed

10. Playbooks
---
- hosts: webservers
sudo: yes
tasks:
- name: Ensure PHP is installed.
apt: name=php5-common state=installed
Group
Module
Documentation
Arguments

11. Architecture

12. Architecture

13. Architecture

14. Architecture

15. Deploying Drupal 8
Demo
See: raspberry-pi-dramble on GitHub

16. Deploying Drupal 8
1. First deploy: install
$ ansible-playbook main.yml
2. Second deploy: update, import config, rebuild caches
$ ansible-playbook main.yml --extra-vars "drupal_version=1.2.1"

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/ Drupal 8 is scalable and (almost)
fast! /
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At #MidCamp/#MADCamp (mid-March), it was a different story!

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20. Resources
• Ansible documentation
• Ansible Vagrant examples
• Ansible for DevOps
• Raspberry Pi Dramble
• Raspberry Pi Dramble Wiki

21. Open Discussion
• Drupal VM
• DevShop
• Vlad
• Valkyrie
• Other projects/companies
using Ansible?