An Ansible role to install lighttpd and gunicorn and to deploy your custom flask applications from GitHub. If your repo is private:

• Create a new SSH key - without setting a password - into a local file using ssh-keygen
• Add this key to your repo's "Deployment Keys" on GitHub
• Specify the path to this file in gf_app.ssh_keyfile

None

# lighttpd settings
lgf_vhosts_dir: "/etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d"

# supervisor settings
lgf_supervisor_password: "PASSWORD"
lgf_supervisor_socket: "/tmp/supervisor.sock"

# settings for your app(s)
lgf_app:
  - server_name: "app"
    flask_app: "wsgi"
    proxy_host: "127.0.0.1"
    proxy_port: "80"
    gunicorn_port: "12345"
    gunicorn_threads: "3"
    app_dir: "/var/www/html/app"
    virtualenv_dir: "/var/www/html/app/env"
    # a media_dir will not run through wsgi and will prompt
    # lighttpd to spin up a server on the specified port.
    # set to "" if you don't need it
    media_dir: "/media"   # inside {{ app_dir }}
    python_3: false
    repo: "[email protected]:{user}/{repo-name}"
    ssh_keyfile: ""
    extra_files:
      - src: "app-settings-config.py"
        dest: "config.py"
  
  - ...

Notes:

• lgf_app.server_name: Used througout the configuration to refer to your app; for example log-files named server-name.access.log will be created inside lighttpd's log directory, so don't use spaces in this name
• lgf_app.flask_app: The name of the main Flask app module
• lgf_app.media_dir: Directory inside the app-dir that will not be proxied through gunicorn, but directly served by lighttpd
• lgf_app.ssh_keyfile: A file with an SSH key that allows to clone a private GitHub repo
• lgf_app.extra_files: Files, treated as templates with "item.0" as lgf_app dict and "item.1" as extra_file dict, that will be copied into the app directory

None

- hosts: webserver
  roles:
  - role: ansible-lighttpd-gunicorn-flask

GPLv2

Sebastian Gumprich https://www.zufallsheld.de