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1. Prepare controller host

Prepare Controller Hosts

When deploying MiaRec in "all-in-one" configuration on a single server, you can use the same host for both Controller and Target roles. In this case, the Ansible playbook will deploy MiaRec locally.

When deploying MiaRec on multiple servers, it is necessary to use a dedicated host for the Controller role.

Supported operating systems for the Controller host

MiaRec team officially supports the following operating system for the controller host:

  • Centos 7 64-bit
  • Centos 6 64-bit
  • Ubuntu Server 14.04 (Xenial Xerus) LTS 64-bit
  • Ubuntu Server 16.04 (Trusty Tahr) LTS 64-bit
  • Windows 10 with Bash on Ubuntu *

(*) - The Windows 10 machine could be used solely for the Controller role. If you need to install MiaRec software on Windows operating system, then check the guide Installation on Windows.

It is possible to run Ansible playbook from Mac OSX and other operating systems. The complete list of the supported OSs is available in the official Ansible documentation. The MiaRec team provides technical support for the above mentioned OSs only.

Install Ansible on Ubuntu

Install additional software packages and configure Network Time Protocol (NTP). Before you begin, we recommend upgrading your system packages and kernel.

Update package source lists:

sudo apt-get update

Upgrade the system packages and kernel:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Reboot the host.

Install PIP (a tool for installing Python packages. Ansible is written in Python):

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Install Ansible using PIP:

sudo pip3 install ansible

Verify Ansible version:

ansible --version

The output should be something like:

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.3.1.0
  config file = 
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

Install Ansible on Centos 7

Install additional software packages and configure Network Time Protocol (NTP). Before you begin, we recommend upgrading your system packages and kernel.

Upgrade the system packages and kernel

sudo yum upgrade

Reboot the host.

Install the Software Collections (SCL) repository. It is required for the latest version of Postgresql (11/12).

On Centos 7:

sudo yum install centos-release-scl

On RedHat Enterprise:

sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

Install additional software packages if they were not installed during the operating system installation:

sudo yum install git

Install EPEL repository:

sudo yum install epel-release

Install Ansible:

sudo yum install ansible

Verify Ansible version:

ansible --version

Install the MiaRec ansible scripts

Clone the latest stable release of the MiaRec-Ansible Git repository in the /opt/ansible-miarec directory:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/miarec/ansible-miarec /opt/ansible-miarec