Overview

This is an Ansible playbook which will build a docker container containing a nearly-finished Silverstripe installation. It will configure and install Nginx, PHP 7.0 and MySQL, and then download SilverStripe 3.7.

This container is NOT designed for production purposes, and is specifically built for Raspberry Pi 2+ and 3+ units.

Supported versions

The following versions are supported:

SilverStripe 3.7
PHP 7.0
Nginx 1.10.3
Docker 18.06.0-ce
Rasbpian Stretch
Ansible 2.6.2
Git 2.11.0

Configuration requirements

The playbook is designed to be run as 'localhost' on the target RPi. The inventory file should not need to be changed, and is dynamically updated based on the container that is created.

Users

The playbook will create an 'ansible' user (password 'ansible') in the container - for automation purposes - and a 'silverstripe' user in MySQL (password 'silverstripe').

Playbook variables

The playbook supports two user-defined variables - the container name and the port. If you are running multiple containers, then you should change these on a per-install basis, using extra-vars (see examples below).

  vars:
    docker_container_name: silverstripe
    docker_container_port: 8080

Example playbook

The playbook is fully self-contained and does not require any customisation. A standard playbook command looks like this:

ansible-playbook ./playbooks/create_silverstripe_image.yml -i inventory

If you want to use different names or ports for the container, then run the playbook like this:

ansible-playbook ./playbooks/create_silverstripe_image.yml -i inventory -extra-vars "docker_container_name=silverstripe2 docker_container_port=8081"

Post-execution steps

When the playbook has finished, go to http://your_rpi_address:docker_container_port/install.php

Provide the database details (username silverstripe, password silverstripe), and the admin username and password of your choice. Click 'Install SilverStripe' and wait a bit for this to complete.

After the SilverStripe installation page, you may be redirected to a index.php page (something like index.php/home/successfullyinstalled?flush=1&flushtoken=529dd4b60d96b898c6daa68a03d581c4) - this will be a 404 page, so just reload the site without the index.php.

Recent changes

First release, everything looks good.

Known issues

Services might not restart properly at the end - to start them manually you should log in via docker:

exec -it DOCKER_CONTAINER_NAME /bin/bash
service nginx start
service php7.0-fpm start
service mysql start

If the install fails for an Ansible-related reason, you can rerun it without building the container by including --skip-tags build_container.

Contact information

geoff@zimoobo.com

geoffmunn/rpi-silverstripe