Re: [Health-dev] Using Ansible for future GNU Health installation

[Luis Falcon]

Dear Gerald
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:40:24 +0100
Gerald Wiese <wiese@gnuhealth.org> wrote:

> Hello :)
> After the GHCon Luis & me had a talk about using Ansible as future 
> installation strategy. There is already a mercurial repo 
> "health-ansible" where I will push for HMIS 4.1 testing / 4.2 release.
> Our idea is to have the current vanilla installation & Ansible in 
> parallel for 4.2 and if everything works well move to Ansible as
> default (operating system independent) way for 4.4 or 5.0.
> You can use it to install GNU Health HMIS using the PyPI package 
> "gnuhealth-all-modules" and put uWSGI & Nginx in front. Currently 
> Debian, Ubuntu & openSUSE Leap are supported. Adding more libre 
> operating systems will not be complicated, Luis already planned
> adding FreeBSD.
> If you want to join reflecting design decisions, testing, developing, 
> documenting, etc. - please hit me up!
> As soon as there is an initial state to test based on 4.2 release 
> candidate I will let you know.

That is good news. Terrific work!

I think it will help deploying GNUHealth HMIS in many different
architectures.

I will definitely work on FreeBSD port, and if things work well, we can
use this method as the standard in 4.4 onward. 

In addition, having WSGI will be also part of the standard installation
starting 4.4 

@dev-community, please check the health-ansible repo to get involved on
this project.

Really looking forward to start working on it!

All the best
Luis