I’m coming from the past, where FTP was enough for regular deployment. Those times are long gone, and we need to keep in shape with the younger developers who mostly work on the 13-inch notebooks from smoky cafe shops and train stations. It would be a shame for us that someone with those working habits be more productive than we. In our Star Trek offices, on our Thinkpads and 27-inch monitors
For this setup you’ll need the next ingredients:
- Linux
- Ansible on your host
- Git (on both ends)
- Gitlab / Github / Gitea or something similar
In this case, I’m deploying a .Net app so I made a service script that should be restarted after the files are replaced from Gitlab
The first step would be to add your public key to the remote host so you don’t need to enter a password to login. (as described here: LINK
Now create a folder where you will keep all the files:
mkdir /home/myuser/CICD && cd /home/myuser/CICD |
Create file inventory.txt and add:
NAME ansible_host=HOST ansible_connection=ssh ansible_port=22 ansible_user=root |
(replace HOST with actual host and NAME with your server name. Also if your ssh is not on the default port, replace the port 22 )
Create in the same dir the MYSERVICE.yaml file (for Ansible)
- hosts: all
tasks:
- name: Restart MYSERVICE
service: name=MYSERVICE state=restarted |
Replace the MYSERVICE with your service name
The finally create the shell script (MYSERVICE.sh)
#!/bin/bash PWD="/home/myuser/WebSites/MyAppBuild" echo " ====================== running command from" $PWD cd $PWD git add . echo -n " ====================== commit message: " read message git commit -m "$message" git push -u origin master ssh MYREMOTE@HOST "cd /somedir/MyAppBuild && git pull origin master && exit" ansible-playbook /home/myuser/CICD/MYSERVICE.yaml -i /home/myuser/CICD/inventory.txt |
Of course, replace the path(s), save the file and chmod +x MYSERVICE.sh
When you build your project inside the /home/myuser/WebSites/MyAppBuild all you need to do is to run /home/myuser/CICD/MYSERVICE.sh
I hope this will help someone