Jithin,

I'm a big proponent of Ansible for DevOps and installs, but in the case of 
Edx I wrote before and still believe that it does a disservice for the 
newcomers into the space. I would argue that the Edx Ansible code base was 
put together awhile back and it is not to the current Best Practices of the 
tool (Ansible) anymore. If you're lucky to have a working Ubuntu Edx VM - 
you're already ahead of many. Unless you want to build a reusable way of 
recreating your VMs from scratch again - I'd say you don't need Ansible 
anymore, and it may not help you figuring out the config files, only delay 
and confuse. The layered structure of Roles and Variable is extremely hard 
to decipher. It should be much faster for you to work directly with the 
configs and basic Python code (mostly, in the settings) to adjust the 
configuration to your specific needs. There are great examples of basic 
(important: basic) Edx installs without Ansible. I also like the 
Docker-based system and the installation process of the Devstack. It uses 
Ansible as well, but it limits the playbooks to specific components, which 
makes it a little easier to follow (just a little).  Good luck.


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On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 4:53:29 PM UTC+8, JITHIN SHA wrote:
>
> Hello Stan,
>
> I very appreciate the time taken to reply. Yes, I have tried to go for 
> configs rather than documents first. 
>
> As you said, yes all the services are controlled by supervisor. And its 
> installed with ansible automatically. I had gone through a little of 
> Ansible mainly for this stuff. I think i need to try a little more deeper. 
> However reading your emails gives me some positive energy. 
>
> Thanks and regards
> J
>
>
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