Ansible Playbook for Django on Ubuntu

Overview

This is an Ansible playbook that sets up a Ubuntu 14.04 machine as a server for a Django project. It is primarily built for a typical AWS or Digital Ocean server.

PostgreSQL as the database
nginx & uWSGI to serve the Django site
Supervisor to daemonize uWSGI

Prerequisites

Set up a AWS or Digital Ocean server
Add all needed SSH keys to the server
Add the server IP address to
- the ansible hosts file hosts
- and the variables: file vars/external_var.yaml

Let's Encrypt

You'll have to change the A-records of your domain before running the letsencrypt roles. Otherwise letsencrypt is not able to verify your site.

Github

If you're cloning a Github repository, make sure to add your access token to the .github_token file.

Usage

Install Ansible: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#installation

Create your vars/external_vars.yml file and generate all necessary passwords and variables.

Run the ansible-playbook script:

ansible-playbook -i hosts server.yml

If you want to start over beginning at another task, use: