Ansible: Opencast OpenSearch Role

This Ansible role installs and prepares OpenSearch for Opencast.

This role supports the following,

• Supports RHEL9, Debian and Ubuntu
• Install and configure OpenSearch from elan.opencast_repository
• Disables the OpenSearch security plugin completely. Use a reverse proxy to secure OpenSearch with HTTP Basic Auth and TLS.

Role Variables

• opencast_repository_identifiers
  • List of repository identifiers to temporarily activate for integration
  • Will usually be provided by the elan.opencast_repository role
• opencast_opensearch_heap_size
  • Memory configuration (default: 1g)
  • Might make sense to set this to 2g for larger installations.
• opensearch_api_host
  • Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
• opensearch_api_port
  • Defaults to 9200.

Dependencies

This role depends on elan.opencast_repository.

Example Playbook

Example of how to configure and use the role:

- hosts: servers
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: elan.opencast_opensearch

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author

ELAN e.V.