TDWG 2020 LAC REMOTE SESSIONS

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Remote Support Sessions for Living Atlas Portal Deployment

Manash Shah

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)

Open source IT infrastructure
Multiple components
Microservices based architecture

ala-install

The repository for the official code to deploy and maintain a LA portal is at:

https://github.com/atlasoflivingaustralia/ala-install
Ansible software is used.

Ansible

Provisioning
Configuration management
Application deployment
Infrastructure as code

Ansible (cont)

Execute configuration, deployment, and orchestration functions.
Describe a policy or a set of steps.
Manage configurations and deployments
Human-readable, basic text language

Ansible roles

Organize related vars_files, tasks, handlers and other Ansible artifacts
Reuse and share

Ansible inventories

Inventory file defines the hosts or groups of hosts upon which commands, modules, and tasks in a playbook operate.
Configuration variables

Tool: generator-living-atlas

Simplify the configuration, installation & maintainence
Get a functional configuration for the setup using ansible
Scaffolds necessary ALA inventory files
Interactive
Possible to rerun to add or update modules

https://github.com/living-atlases/generator-living-atlas

https://www.npmjs.com/package/generator-living-atlas

Web: https://generator.l-a.site/

Remote Sessions

Conducted by Technical coordinator
Introduction to LA platform
Bootstrapping a new LA instance
Test Installation or Production deployments
Sessions prepared and conducted remotely

Includes

Using LA generator to create/update the inventory files.
Virtual Machine provisioning.
Installation of modules
Post installation steps

Where to now...

Data and content management.
Security management.
Customization.
Scaling and moving to production.

Feedback from sessions until now

All the participants found the session helpful; useful to have an idea about the framework and helped get up to speed with LA installation and configuration
recommend newcomers to use these sessions because the explanation was very good and it’s a good way to understand implementation of the software
Room for improvement: The virtualized environment we used was already set up, it could be more helpful if the sessions involved setting up the environment.

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