bhanditz / openedx-azure-multiserver

Open edX multi-server deployment on Azure

This is an Azure template to create three Ubuntu VMs:

• One application server (edx-platform, xqueue, rabbitmq, elasticsearch)
• One MySQL server (v5.6)
• One MongoDB server (v2.6)

You can learn more about Open edX here:

• https://open.edx.org
• https://github.com/edx/edx-platform

This template will complete quickly, but the full Open edX install usually takes > 1 hour. To follow along with the progress, ssh into the VM application server and tail -f /var/log/azure/openedx-multiserver-install.log

Getting started with Open edX fullstack

After the install has successfully completed, Supervisor will automatically start LMS (the student facing site) on port 80 and Studio (the course authoing site) on port 18010. Both ports have already been made accessible, so you can simply visit them by opening a browser and navigating to:

• LMS: http://YOUR_INSTANCES_DNS_NAME.cloudapp.azure.com
• Studio: http://YOUR_INSTANCES_DNS_NAME.cloudapp.azure.com:18010

Customizing Open edX multiserver

Many Open edX features can be configured by creating and/or editing the file in /edx/app/edx_ansible/server-vars.yml.

After you have added your customizations, save your file, then run:

/edx/bin/update edx-platform YOUR_EDX_PLATFORMS_BRANCH_NAME

A sample server-vars.yml file has been added to this repo to change the site's title to: "Open edX multiserver on Azure."

Customizing Open edX's design

A method for changing the design of Open edX without forking the entire edx-platform repo has been developed by Stanford. You can read more about configuring an Open edX theme and can find the edx-theme repo.

For more info, check the Open edX Github Wiki on managing fullstack