Generating updated LA configuration properties files

Many times, we find ourselves asking for some updated configuration for some service to other portals. Or the configuration directory structures, permissions etc.

This can be useful for instance to:

• use in your docker images
• to compare with your current configuration
• to use in a development environment
• to package some default configuration
• for documentation purposes

We can use our LA generator and run ansiblew (the ansible-playbook wrapper) to generate only the properties for the LA services.

For this run the generator with your specific node values and patch the generated main inventory and ansiblew like this:

diff --git a/ansiblew b/ansiblew
index a4c183a..5a71786 100755
--- a/ansiblew
+++ b/ansiblew
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Options:
   --nodryrun             Exec the ansible-playbook commands
   -p --properties        Only update properties
   -l --limit=<hosts>     Limit to some inventories hosts
+  -L                     Limit to localhost
   -s --skip=<tags>       Skip tags
   -t --tags=<tags>       Limit to tags
   -h --help              Show help options.
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     skip = args['--skip']
     tags = args['--tags']
     limit = args['--limit']
+    local = args['-L']
     main = args['main']
     doall = args['all']
     alainstall = args['--alainstall']
@@ -53,6 +55,9 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     if debug:
         print(args)
 
+    if local:
+        limit = "localhost"
+
     if properties:
         extras = "%s  --tags properties" % (extras)
     if skip:
diff --git a/gbif-es-inventory.yml b/gbif-es-inventory.yml
index deb5fb2..4400e68 100644
--- a/gbif-es-inventory.yml
+++ b/gbif-es-inventory.yml
@@ -16,61 +16,77 @@ ansible_become=yes
 
 [ala-demo]
 datos.gbif.es
-
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [collectory]
 colecciones.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [biocache-hub]
 registros.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [biocache-service-clusterdb]
 registros-ws.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [bie-hub]
 especies.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [bie-index]
 especies-ws.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [image-service]
 imagenes.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [species-list]
 listas.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [regions]
 regiones.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [logger-service]
 logger.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [solr7-server]
 index.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [cas-servers]
 auth.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [biocache]
 jenkins.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [biocache-cli]
 jenkins.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [spatial]
 espacial.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [webapi_standalone]
 api.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 [nameindexer]
 jenkins.gbif.es
+localhost ansible_connection=local
 
 
 [all:vars]
 is_vagrant=false
 # Mounted storage is usually /mnt on EC2. Create a symlink to /mnt -> /data
-data_dir=/data
+data_dir=/home/youruser/dev/ala-properties
 
 demo_hostname = datos.gbif.es
 skin_home_url = https://datos.gbif.es

(in this example we patch a copy of the gbif.es inventories) so running:

./ansiblew --alainstall=../ala-install-up-to-date all -p -L --nodryrun

You will get the typical /data/*/config/* files for the main LA services (collectoy, biocache, biocache-cli, bie, species list, logger, etc) updated for you node, in:

/home/youruser/dev/ala-properties

So you'll obtain:

.
├── ala-bie
│   └── config
├── ala-collectory
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── ala-collectory-config.properties
│   │   ├── charts.json
│   │   ├── connection-profiles.json
│   │   └── default-gbif-licence-mapping.json
│   ├── data
│   │   └── taxa
│   │       └── taxa.json
│   ├── taxa
│   │   └── data
│   └── upload
│       └── tmp
├── ala-hub
│   ├── cache
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── ala-hub-config.properties
│   │   ├── charts.json
│   │   ├── GeoLite2-City.mmdb
│   │   ├── grouped_facets_ala.json
│   │   └── system-message.json
│   ├── download
│   │   └── GeoLite2-City.tar.gz
│   └── geolite_db
│       └── GeoLite2-City_20191112
│           ├── COPYRIGHT.txt
│           ├── GeoLite2-City.mmdb
│           ├── LICENSE.txt
│           └── README.txt
├── bie
│   └── import
├── bie-index
│   └── config
│       ├── bie-index-config.yml
│       ├── conservation-lists.json
│       ├── favourites.json
│       ├── image-lists.json
│       └── vernacular-lists.json
├── biocache
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── biocache-config.properties
│   │   ├── facets.json
│   │   ├── log4j.xml
│   │   └── subgroups.json
│   └── layers
├── biocache-delete
├── biocache-load
├── biocache-media
├── biocache-upload
│   ├── status
│   └── temp
├── cache
├── offline
│   └── exports
├── regions
│   └── config
│       ├── menu-config.json
│       ├── regions-config.properties
│       ├── state-emblems.json
│       └── stateEmblems.txt
├── specieslist-webapp
│   └── config
│       └── specieslist-webapp-config.properties
├── tmp
└── tool

Prerequisite:

• some tomcat7 user in your machine or you can also configure the tomcat and tomcat7_user variables.
• sudo access or something similar

For now this doesn't works for CAS and Spatial services because they use a include_role. See tag inheritance.