Testing
When you want to make changes, make sure to commit them to staging or a new branch which you merge to staging.
Check that the staging branch deploys properly to staging automatically.
You cannot directly commit to master. Make a branch and merge it with staging, then commit staging to master.
If staging encounters no errors, merge staging with master. Do not delete the staging branch.
A box, manage_prod updates its copy of the repository every 2 minutes
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Development Workflow
Take a look at
- Ansible development workflow (Obsolete) for an overview of how we typically make changes to the Ansible codebase workflow
- Management Server (Obsolete) for details about the scripts that apply those changes to the digital collections servers.
Variable Structure
Ansible looks at a number of different files when building or updating a box. When looking for a variable, use the following guide to decide where to check for a variable or where to place one. All variables are in the group_vars folder.
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