Ansible Play Strapi

Overview

Ansible Play Strapi is a set of playbooks and roles designed to deploy the headless CMS, Strapi, on Amazon AWS. This Ansible play includes roles for VPC, RDS (PostgreSQL), EC2, and S3. It creates a VPC with private and public subnets, sets up a database instance on RDS, creates an EC2 instance for Strapi, and places it in a public subnet. The play is designed to ensure that the database is only accessible from the EC2 instance and not from the outside world.

Features

VPC: Creates a Virtual Private Cloud with private and public subnets. RDS: Sets up a database instance on Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL). EC2: Creates an EC2 instance for Strapi CMS. S3: Configures an Amazon S3 bucket for storage. Ansible-vault: Optional feature to secure credentials using Ansible-vault. IAM User Access: Generates an IAM User with programmatic access and assigns necessary policies. Key Pair: Creates a key pair for secure SSH access to the EC2 instance. Ansible Variables: Provides configurable variables to customize the deployment.

Summary

Ansible Play Strapi provides a convenient way to deploy the Strapi CMS on Amazon AWS using Ansible playbooks and roles. It sets up a VPC, RDS database, EC2 instance, and S3 storage for Strapi. The play offers flexibility with configurable variables and the option to secure credentials using Ansible-vault. By following the installation steps, users can easily deploy Strapi CMS on Amazon AWS with the help of Ansible.