Ansible Playbook for setting up a Django app. This playbook installs and configures a Django application with the following technologies:

• Nginx
• Gunicorn
• Supervisor
• Virtualenv
• PostgreSQL

OS: Ubuntu, Debian

Tested with Cloud Providers: Digital Ocean, Amazon

First, create an inventory file for the environment, for example:

[webservers]
django_test ansible_ssh_user=test

Next, define variables

- git_repo: "https://github.com/myarik/demo_django_ansible_setup.git"

Run the playbook:

ansible-playbook main.yml -i server.ini

When doing deployments, you can simply use the --tags option to only run those tasks with these tags.

The user can specify parameters they wish to apply.

Configuration

• application_name: Application name. Defaults is django_test
• application_path: Application path. Defaults is /opt/{{application_name}}
• application_static_path: A static path. Defaults is /opt/{{application_name}}/staticfiles
• application_media_path: A media path. Defaults is /opt/{{application_name}}/media
• virtualenv_path: Application virtualenv. Defaults is /opt/{{application_name}}/.env
• setup_nginx: Install and configure nginx. Default is True
• setup_postgresql: Install PostgreSQL. Default is False

Common settings

• main_pkg: List of main pkgs
• setup_zsh: Setup zsh. Defaults is true.
• git_user_name: Git username. Defaults is django_test
• git_email: Git user email. Defaults is git@django_test

Application settings

• add_pkgs: List of additional packeges.
• git_repo: Git Repository
• git_branch: Git branch. Defaults is master
• gunicorn_num_workers: The number of worker processes for handling requests. Default is 2
• gunicorn_max_requests: The maximum number of requests a worker will process. Default is 0

Django settings

• django_environment: Django Environment variables
• requirements_file: Django requirement file. Default is {{application_path}}/requirements.txt
• django_settings_file: Django settings file. Default is {{application_path}}/config/settings/production
• django_wsgi: Django wsgi file. Default is config.wsgi
• django_manage_commands: List of django manage commands. Default is migrate and collectstatic

PostgreSQL settings

• postgresql_pgtune: Install pgtune. Default is False
• postgresql_encoding: Default is UTF-8
• database_name: Database name
• database_user: Database user
• database_password: Database password

For creating demo project, I used a cookiecutter template for Django

1. Install and configre enviroment with PostgreSQL database. (Setup enviroment in Digital Ocean)

server.ini

[webservers]
digital_ocean_test ansible_ssh_user=root

vars:
  - git_repo: "https://github.com/myarik/demo_django_ansible_setup.git"
  - setup_postgresql: true
  - database_name: "demo_test"
  - database_user: "demo"
  - database_password: "demo"
  - django_environment:
      DEBUG: False
      DATABASE_URL: "postgres://demo:demo@localhost:5432/demo_test"
      DJANGO_SECRET_KEY: be&9u)d64q^@a__^1oswsezz((%li@j^5#=f!lm32n+21x!*2@
      DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS: "*"

2. Install and configre enviroment with Sqlite database. (Setup enviroment in AWS)

server.ini

[webservers]
aws_test ansible_ssh_user=ubuntu

vars:
  - git_repo: "https://github.com/myarik/demo_django_ansible_setup.git"
  - application_name: my_project
  - application_path: /home/ubuntu/{{application_name}}
  - django_environment:
      DEBUG: False
      DATABASE_URL: sqlite:////tmp/my-tmp-sqlite.db
      DJANGO_SECRET_KEY: be&9u)d64q^@a__^1oswsezz((%li@j^5#=f!lm32n+21x!*2@
      DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS: "*"