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Advanced installation

Running Streisand to Provision Localhost

If you can not run Streisand in the normal manner (running from your client home machine/laptop to configure a remote server) Streisand supports a local provisioning mode. Simply choose "Localhost (Advanced)" from the menu after running ./streisand.

Note: Running Streisand against localhost can be a destructive action! You will be potentially overwriting configuration files and must be certain that you are affecting the correct machine.

Running Streisand on Other Providers

You can also run Streisand on a new Ubuntu 16.04 server. Dedicated hardware? Great! Esoteric cloud provider? Awesome! To do so, simply choose "Existing Server (Advanced)" from the menu after running ./streisand and provide the IP address of the existing server when prompted.

The server must be accessible using the $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa SSH Key, and root is used as the connecting user by default. If your provider requires you to SSH with a different user than root (e.g. ubuntu) specify the ANSIBLE_SSH_USER environmental variable (e.g. ANSIBLE_SSH_USER=ubuntu) when you run ./streisand.

Note: Running Streisand against an existing server can be a destructive action! You will be potentially overwriting configuration files and must be certain that you are affecting the correct machine.

Noninteractive Deployment

Alternative scripts and configuration file examples are provided for noninteractive deployment, in which all of the required information is passed on the command line or in a configuration file.

Example configuration files are found under global_vars/noninteractive. Copy and edit the desired parameters, such as providing API tokens and other choices, and then run the appropriate script.

To deploy a new Streisand server:

  deploy/streisand-new-cloud-server.sh \
    --provider digitalocean \
    --site-config global_vars/noninteractive/digitalocean-site.yml

To run the Streisand provisioning on the local machine:

  deploy/streisand-local.sh \
    --site-config global_vars/noninteractive/local-site.yml

To run the Streisand provisioning against an existing server:

  deploy/streisand-existing-cloud-server.sh \
    --ip-address 10.10.10.10 \
    --ssh-user root \
    --site-config global_vars/noninteractive/digitalocean-site.yml