Set up Stratum 1 in AWS

[bedroge]

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[sassy-crick]

Some suggestions from trying out the Setup of Stratum-1 in AWS:
GeoIP key request:
It would be good to specify whether we need a license key for geoipupdate version 3.1.1 or newer, or the older version. Without having the software installed it is difficult to know.

In inventory/local_site_specific_vars.yml.example it might be good to comment about whether or not local_cvmfs_http_proxies_allowed_clients: and ocal_cvmfs_http_proxies: need to be commented out or not if you are not using them.

Similarly, in inventory/hosts.example I would do it like that:

[cvmfsstratum1servers]
your-stratum1.org ansible_ssh_user=YOUR-USERNAME

This might be a bit clearer when you look at the example file.

In inventory/host_vars/stratum0host.example :
It might be worth while to put a note in the stratum0host.example to explain that if the cvmfs_srv_device is mounted already, it is not needed and a symlink between the mount point and /srv is all what is required. In my case I added:

# we are not using this here but we are using a symlink which was done
# manually. This was needes as /etc/fstab is using a Label instead of 
# a block device name
# cvmfs_srv_device: /dev/nvme1n1 

One mistake I made is I was running the Ansible command on the machine I wanted to install the stratum1 server. This is probably now what I would do in production. Maybe a comment here might be useful?

Overall, given I got very little experiences with Ansible and with AWS, I think addressing these minor issues should clarify things for the not-so experienced user.

[boegel]

@bedroge This can be closed, no?

[bedroge]

I think Jörg's feedback still has to be addressed in the docs. I'll try to do that this/next week when updating the docs (there's also that similar issue from Jurij, can do that at the same time).