Documentation question/suggestion about smartserver

[HolgerHees]

Hi,

thanks for your feedback.

I made some changes to the documentation. Is this now more helpful?

There is also no need for --extra-vars "target=production. The deployment detects the type of deployment automatically with the server ip. This means. If the server IP matches production_ip it will deploy the production setup. If the server IP matches staging_ip it will deploy the staging setup. This is more safe, because it prevents you from deploying staging on production :-)

[imaginator]

Thanks @HolgerHees. Am I correct to assume that you run with two copies of the repo:

• one locally on a laptop for the Vagrant setup and,
• one on the server for production?
  Then it checks the host IP to work out which to run?

Is there/would it make sense to just have one repo (on laptop) with the option to deploy to the remote server?

[HolgerHees]

Yes, this works too, if you modify the server.ini as described in my changed wiki page.

If you want to deploy local staging and remote production i would recommend to have two server.ini files like

server_local.ini and server_production.ini

[imaginator]

right - makes sense. I see you have most roles tagged so I'm not too worried about speed when just deploying using --tags. Thanks for the documentation updates.