Official Ansible Deploy Script For BenchCore

Official Ansible deploy script for BenchCore using DigitalOcean as the default provider.

Prerequisites For Ansible-Based BenchCore Deployments

Install Ansible 2.0 or higher via https://www.ansible.com on a Linux VM or your local environment. Must be Linux or Mac OSX-based.
Create a DigitalOcean API token via https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens
Make Sure DigitalOcean API token has read/write capabilities
Create SSH keys
Install the Python dopy package for the Digital Ocean Python functions to work correctly.

Deploying BenchCore With Ansible

The playbooks are located here https://github.com/benchlab/benchcore-ansible/tree/master/

### to configure the sentry node architecture.

ansible roles
export API="your-digital-ocean-token"
export KEY="$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"

# This deployer assumes that you have your rocketeer set up already.
# You can create the folder structure for the BenchCore nodes using `benchcore testnet`.
# For example: benchcore testnet --v 0 --n 4 --o build/
# Then copy your dawn.json and modify the config.toml as you see fit.

ansible-playbook -i inventory/digital_ocean.py -l benchchain-testnet install.yml
ansible-playbook -i inventory/digital_ocean.py -l benchchain-testnet config.yml -e BENCH=`pwd`/build/benchcore -e BCONFIG=`pwd`/build

Using ELK Stack For Deploying Error and Event Logging

ELK Stack is an Elastic stack (Elastic search, Logstash and Kibana) and this script uses Logz.io as the service provider for the ELK Stack. You can set up your nodes to log there automatically. Create an account and get your API key via https://app.logz.io/#/dashboard/data-sources/Filebeat.

CENTOS INSTALL

yum install systemd-devel
go get github.com/mheese/journalbeat
ansible-playbook -i inventory/digital_ocean.py -l benchchain-testnet elk.yml -e LOGZIO_TOKEN=YOUR-LOGZ-TOKEN

UBUNTU INSTALL

apt-get install libsystemd-dev
go get github.com/mheese/journalbeat
ansible-playbook -i inventory/digital_ocean.py -l benchchain-testnet elk.yml -e LOGZIO_TOKEN=YOUR-LOGZ-TOKEN

VERSION

1.0.3

LICENSE

BENCH LICENSE
For BenchCore Ansible

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