Ansible and Vagrant

Ansible is an open-source tool for automating deployment and server-management related steps. ChirpStack provides a so-called Ansible Playbook which can be used to deploy and configure ChirpStack and optionally setup TLS certificates. The source of this Playbook, including additional documentation, can be found at https://github.com/chirpstack/chirpstack-ansible-playbook.

Local VM deployment using Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for automating the creation of virtual machines. It can integrate with Ansible so that it not only create the VM for you, but also will install and configure ChirpStack.

After following the instructions documented in the chirpstack-ansible-playbook repository, you can create a local test environment running inside a VM using the following command:

vagrant up

As this is using exactly the same Ansible Playbook as for remote deployments, this can also be used for testing before doing a remote deployment, e.g. when making modifications to the playbook.

Remote deployment

Ansible can also be used to perform remote deployments. After following the steps documented in chirpstack-ansible-playbook, the following will perform a remote deployment:

ansible-playbook -i inventory deploy.yml