BBB installfest please šŸ˜„

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Hi!

So I have been trying to install BBB on my own server behind NAT with a fixed IP address and a domain name but always get stuck around SSL configuration, etc

Can we have something like an ā€œInstallfestā€ or something for BBB? If it makes sense, we can start with a fresh Ununtu 16.04 virtualbox image. (This is what I have been doing)

Alternatively, can someone just upload a VirtualBox image that is almost complete? (Meaning all we need to do is changing IP addresses, configure LetsEncrpt etc)

I have also been hearing about this ā€˜Ansibleā€™ script thing - is it the case I can just ā€œrun itā€ on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server and it will do most of the installation?

Cheers :smile:
Yasu

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I started writing some Ansible to install BBB yesterday:

I have used a few existing roles to save time and Iā€™ve so far worked through the install page in this tasks file, next Iā€™ll look at the Greenlight install.

You should be able to get Letā€™s Encrypt working with a fixed (or even dynamic) IP address behind NAT, if anyone does want to try using the role Iā€™m working on then copy the servers repo and edit the hosts.yml file and then try running the Bash scriptā€¦

If you are new to Ansible then this is a good place to start:

There are another 8 parts from Jeff Geerling after that and perhaps more will be recorded, I havenā€™t watched them all (I had the first one running in the background a few days ago and it seems very clear).

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