Update Ansible configuration for deploying dashboard using environment

variables

Author: gurbirkalsi

ansible/README.md

@@ -3,20 +3,21 @@ This will ease installation, and deployment of the pbench dashboard.
 
 ## Required
 - Ansible needs to be installed on the host where you want to run this playbook
-- An inventory file containing the following key values defined:
-  - "`elasticsearch_url`", "`results_url`", "`graphql_url`", "`run_index`", "`prefix`"
-    See the `/README.md` for more details. 
+- An inventory file containing the server values defined
+
+## Endpoint Configuration
+API endpoints are configured and bundled into the final binary when running `yarn build`. Before deployment of the binary to a remote host, consider the current configuration definition at `config/endpoints.js`.
 
 ## Run
 Running the below commands from this checked-out directory to install the
 pbench dashboard components locally, and then deploy hosts mentioned under
-the "`[servers:children]`" section of the given `inventory` file.
- 
-There's also an option to define the dashboard configuration in the provided
-inventory file.
+the "`[servers]`" section of the given `inventory` file.
 
 See the `inventory` file in this directory for an example.
 ```
+$ # First bundle the dashboard for production
+$ yarn build
+$
 $ # First add a link to the "dist" folder where the dashboard will be built.
 $ ln -sf ../dist dist
 $ ansible-playbook -i inventory dashboard-install.yml

ansible/config.json.j2

@@ -1,22 +1,3 @@
-[servers:children]
-ui-server
-user-server
-
-[servers:vars]
-results_url="http://{{ inventory_hostname }}"
-run_index="run.example"
-graphql_url="http://{{ inventory_hostname }}"
-
-[ui-server]
-ui-server.example.com
-
-[ui-server:vars]
-elasticsearch_url="http://elasticsearch.example.com"
-prefix="ui-server.example."
-
-[user-server]
-user-server.example.com
-
-[user-server:vars]
-elasticsearch_url="http://elasticsearch.example.com"
-prefix="user-server.example."
+[servers]
+staging-server.example.com
+production-server.example.com

ansible/inventory

@@ -13,6 +13,4 @@
     dest: /var/www/html/dashboard
     owner: pbench
     group: pbench
-
-- name: initialize dashboard config file
-  template: src=config.json.j2 dest=/var/www/html/dashboard/config.json mode=0644 owner=pbench group=pbench
+