FAQ.adoc

Table of Contents

• FAQ
  • Deployment Stages
  • Cloud Providers
  • AWS Questions

FAQ

Deployment Stages

Can I bypass one or more stages?

Yes, main.yml tags each stage, use --skip-tags

Where should I store credentails?

Never inside the repo. A common pattern is to store them in the home directoy of the user who executes ansible-playbook. For example ~/.ssh for ssh keys, ~/.aws/credentials for AWS etc.

Cloud Providers

Can I bypass Stage 1 Cloud Providers completely?

Yes. See configs/linklight/README for an example and use --skip-tags=deploy_infrastructure

AWS Questions

Can I use AWS Profiles?

Maybe…​