I’m working on some more general improvements to ofn_deployment, progress so far can be seen on this branch:
https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/ofn_deployment/tree/infrastructure
Broadly this is about simplifying the configuration such that variables have default values where possible and can be defined for groups or individual hosts as required. The project structure has been refactored somewhat as well to represent best practice for Ansible. Also most server configuration will be captured in the project, so its easy to see what servers each country is running.
Its planned to change the project name to ofn-install. This reflects a more general purpose better as the scripts are more typically used for provisioning and installation rather than deployment (which is more often handled by Buildkite and/or git push, etc). Any concerns regarding this?
I will also start creating releases of the project so big changes can be adopted in a more structured way than just updating HEAD.
Another area I discussed with @maikel and would welcome other input on is documentation. The project wiki is currently used which is simple to edit, but it means the docs are not versioned along with the scripts. An alternative is to use Read the Docs and generate docs from versioned controlled doc files. Does anyone have a view on this either way?
Comments appreciated! @marito59 @MikeiLL @oeoeaio @gnollet @sigmundpetersen @lawrence @lin_d_hop @sreeharsha