Rockstat bootstrap

Requirements

Virtual or dedicated server with at least:

2 core
8 Gb mem
60 Gb SSD

Requires OS: Ubutnu 16.04.x

Caution!

Rockstat required fresh server without any other software. Don't install rockstat on existing server with other software! Setup process do significant system reconfiguration.

Domain records

Typically DNS zone looks like:

stats.yourdomain        A  1.2.3.4
*.stats.yourdomain      A  1.2.3.4

for second level domains:

yourdomain (or @)       A  1.2.3.4
*.yourdomain            A  1.2.3.4

Start server

Required steps depends of

Local setup on server

Connect to server

Open Terminal application (On Windows know as cmd) Type following connection command:

ssh root@yourdomain

Intials

You need to setup curl only once

sudo apt -qqy update && sudo apt -qqy install curl

Then run:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rockstat/bootstrap/master/bin/kickstart | sudo -E bash -

sudo reboot

For development version

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rockstat/bootstrap/dev/bin/kickstart | sudo -E BRANCH=dev bash -

sudo reboot

Upgrade / reconfigure installation

Rockstat is on active development stage. Lookat at page What's new. Take a latest version.

To run setup tool just type rockstat

Direct ansible usage

configure inventory

# ...
test ansible_host=test.rstat.org realname=User email=hello@rstat.org

Generate password using make password. Execute playbook

 AHOST=test
 APASS='$apr1$G2B2.GYy$QiBhuOZeRC03moZTPsB561'
ansible-playbook platform.yml --limit=$AHOST --tags=ssl,full -e admin_password=$APASS

Custom tasks

You should create tasks/custom.yml. Possible to be an empty file.

touch tasks/custom.yml

Params

To force SSL -e ssl_force=1

Overriding configuration

Create configuration for your hosts group groupvars/private.yml You can override configuration by specifing alternative values.

Configurations has a parts prepared for easy overriding/extending:

images_extra

_images_extra:
  chproxy: myusername/chproxy
  redis: redis:4-alpine

will override only thease two images

Custom env

_containers_env_extra:
  director:
    PORT: 1899

Disable support access

enable_support: no

Google Cloud Compute Engine instance configuration

You need to configure additional persistent SSD disk.

Use docs at https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk

Or execute prepared script that configure /dev/sdb disk. Danger! If disk currently not mounted it will be formatted!

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rockstat/bootstrap/master/bin/gcloud_sdb | sudo bash -

Yandex Cloud instance configuration

Prepating additional drive

Or execute prepared script that configure /dev/vdb disk. Danger! If disk currently not mounted it will be formatted!

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rockstat/bootstrap/master/bin/ycloud_vdb | sudo bash -

IPv6

By default setup tool disabling IPv6 support. To prevent set disable_ipv6 to no at you custom config.

Community

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