Archivematica 1.14.1 is a legacy release, and these documents are no longer being maintained.

Automated installation using Ansible

Installing from source using Ansible is the preferred method for new installations on Ubuntu.

It is assumed here that your host operating system is Ubuntu. This can be modified for a different Unix based operating system, such as Mac OS X or another Linux distribution such as CentOS.

The Ansible roles referenced here can be used in production deployments by creating your own Ansible playbook to run them. See the deploy-pub repo for more details.

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Installation instructions

Note

These instructions assume that you have a Python package manager, such as pip, installed on your system. From pip, you should be able to install a released version of Ansible.

Important

If you would like to install Archivematica without Elasticsearch or with limited Elasticsearch functionality, you must first change the role variable archivematica_src_search_enabled to one of the available values. For more information about Archivematica’s Ansible role, please see the ansible-archivematica-src repo.

  1. Install VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Ansible.

    sudo apt-get install virtualbox vagrant
sudo pip install ansible==2.9.10 jmespath

    Vagrant must be at least version 1.9. Check your version with:

    vagrant --version

    If it is not up to date, you can download the newest version from the Vagrant website .

  2. Checkout the deployment repo:

    git clone https://github.com/artefactual/deploy-pub.git

  3. Download the Ansible roles:

    cd deploy-pub/playbooks/archivematica-bionic
ansible-galaxy install -f -p roles/ -r requirements.yml

  4. Create the virtual machine and provision it:

    vagrant up

    Warning

    This will take a while. It depends on your computer, but it could take up to an hour. Your computer may be very slow while Archivematica is being provisioned - be sure to save any work and be prepared to step away from your computer while Archivematica is building.

    If there are any errors, reprovisioning the VM often fixes the issue.

    vagrant provision

  5. Once it’s done provisioning, you can log in to your virtual machine:

    vagrant ssh

    You can also access your Archivematica instance through the web browser:

    The credentials can be found in the vars-singlenode-qa.yml.

Deploy development branches

The previous section described how to deploy the latest stable Archivematica release.

Our Ansible role can also be used to deploy development branches, e.g. if you want to help us QA our product.

Using deploy-pub, where we host our reference playbooks, please follow these steps:

  1. Download the roles defined in requirements-qa.yml:

    cd deploy-pub/playbooks/archivematica-bionic
ansible-galaxy install -f -p roles/ -r requirements-qa.yml

  2. Update singlenode.yml to load vars-singlenode-qa.yml. Inside the pre_tasks section, update the task include_vars as follows:

    - include_vars: "vars-singlenode-qa.yml"
  tags:
    - "always"

  3. Optionally, if you have a specific branch(es) that you want to deploy or other custom configuration needs, update vars-singlenode-qa.yml as needed. By default, we will deploy off branches qa/1.x (Archivematica) and qa/0.x (Storage Service).

  4. Deploy the new configuration. If you’re using Vagrant, please run:

    vagrant provision

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