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This repo holds the scripts used to set up and operate the edX platform.

• Ansible -- takes raw compute resources and configures them so they can run edX services.
• CloudFormation -- provision and set up the set of services you need to host the edX stack with Amazon Web Services. A lot of the Amazon alphabet soup is brought to the party:
  • Servers (EC2)
  • Network access control, NAT, and policy (VPC)
  • Primary Student Database in MySQL (RDS)
  • Load Balancers (ELB)
  • Memcache (ElastiCache)

Please see our Ansible coding conventions before contributing to this repo.

Where to get more info

• The Mailing list 'edx-code' on googlegroups.
• The IRC is '#edx-code' on freenode.
• For FAQ's, see:
  • devstack Issues & Workarounds section;
  • edX-Managing-the-Production-Stack;
  • general information and FAQ's on the edx-platform wiki.

Installation

• edX Developer Stack - for development, not production
• edX Production Stack - this is all edX services running on a single server in a production like configuration
• edX AMIs - launch edX in AWS on a single server using a pre-installed image
• edX Ubuntu 12.04 installation - this will install edX on an existing Ubuntu 12.04 server

For the production stack configurations see edX-Managing-the-Production-Stack for how to manage and update the server once it is running

Other links

• Stanford notes
• AWS Installation Notes