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Run BigchainDB with Ansible
NOT for Production Use
You can use the following instructions to deploy a BigchainDB node for dev/test using Ansible. Ansible will setup a BigchainDB node along with Docker, Docker Compose, MongoDB, BigchainDB Python driver.
Currently, this workflow is only supported for the following distributions:
- Ubuntu >= 16.04
- CentOS >= 7
- Fedora >= 24
Clone the BigchainDB repository | Ansible
$ git clone https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb.git
Install dependencies | Ansible
You can also install ansible
and other dependecies, if any, using the boostrap.sh
script
inside the BigchainDB repository.
Navigate to bigchaindb/pkg/scripts
and run the bootstrap.sh
script to install the dependecies
for your OS. The script also checks if the OS you are running is compatible with the
supported versions.
$ cd bigchaindb/pkg/scripts/
$ sudo ./bootstrap.sh
Local Setup | Ansible
You can safely run the quickstart
playbook now and everything will be taken care of by ansible
on your host. quickstart
playbook only supports deployment on your dev/local host. To run the playbook please navigate to the ansible directory inside the BigchainDB repository and run the quickstart
playbook.
$ cd bigchaindb/pkg/ansible/
# All the services will be deployed as processes
$ sudo ansible-playbook quickstart.yml -c local
OR
# To deploy all services inside docker containers
$ sudo ansible-playbook quickstart.yml --extra-vars "with_docker=true" -c local
After successfull execution of the playbook, you can verify that BigchainDB docker/process is running.
Verify BigchainDB process:
$ ps -ef | grep bigchaindb
OR
Verify BigchainDB Docker:
$ docker ps | grep bigchaindb
The playbook also installs the BigchainDB Python Driver, so you can use it to make transactions and verify the functionality of your BigchainDB node. See the BigchainDB Python Driver documentation for details on how to use it.
Note 1: The bdb_root_url
can be be one of the following:
# BigchainDB is running as a process
bdb_root_url = http://<HOST-IP>:9984
OR
# BigchainDB is running inside a docker container
bdb_root_url = http://<HOST-IP>:<DOCKER-PUBLISHED-PORT>
Note 2: BigchainDB has other drivers as well.