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Microk8s

Playbook Path: ansible/playbooks/install_microk8s.yml

This playbook provides an easy way to install Browsertrix on Ubuntu (tested on Jammy Jellyfish) and RedHat 9 (tested on Rocky Linux 9). It automatically sets up Browsertrix with Letsencrypt certificates.

Requirements

To run this ansible playbook, you need to:

  • Have a server / VPS where browsertrix will run.
  • Configure a DNS A Record to point at your server's IP address.
  • Make sure you can ssh to it, with a sudo user: ssh @
  • Install Ansible on your local machine (the control machine).

Note

Ansible requires an SSH key with no password. You cannot use a passphrase. Sudo must similarly be available without a passphrase for ansible to work

Info 
You will need to install `acl` on the target Ansible machine to set permissions: 
`sudo apt-get install acl`

Install

  1. Clone the repo: 

    git clone https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix.git
cd browsertrix/ansible

  2. Look at the configuration options and modify them or pass them as extra variables as shown below.

  3. Add your IP address above to a new file called [inventory/hosts]

  4. Run the playbook: 

    ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts install_microk8s.yml -e host_ip="1.2.3.4" -e domain_name="yourdomain.com" -e your_user="your_vps_admin_user"

Upgrading

  1. Run git pull

  2. Run the playbook: 

    ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts install_microk8s.yml -e host_ip="1.2.3.4" -e domain_name="yourdomain.com" -t helm_upgrade