playlabs: 30 seconds overview

Quick version of the previous article on playlabs

$ playlabs Playlabs: the obscene ansible distribution.

Init your ssh user with your key and secure sshd and passwordless sudo:

playlabs init root@1.2.3.4
# all options are ansible options are proxied
playlabs init @somehost --ask-become-pass

Now your user can install roles:

playlabs install docker,firewall,nginx @somehost

And deploy a project, examples:

playlabs @somehost deploy image=betagouv/mrs:master
playlabs @somehost deploy
    image=betagouv/mrs:master
    plugins=postgres,django,uwsgi
    backup_password=foo
    prefix=ybs
    instance=hack
    env.SECRET_KEY=itsnotasecret
playlabs @somehost deploy
    prefix=testenv
    instance=$CI_BRANCH
    image=$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_SHA

If you have that work, creating an inventory is the way to move on, wether you want to version configuration, add a deploy user for your CI, configure a secret backup password, add ssh-keys …:

playlabs scaffold ./your-inventory

See the example inventory that scaffold creates for you but in my opinion the most obscene part is plugins.