DCD-658: README updates from review.

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Steve Smith
2019-09-17 15:44:02 +10:00
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@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ helper-script `bin/ansible-with-atl-env` and the corresponding
#### Overriding parameters
If you want to customise the playbook behaviour the simplest method is to fork
this repository and add your own. However for some one-off tasks may be OK to
override the default and calculated settings with special values. This can be
done by providing command-line overrides to
this repository and add your own. However, for some one-off tasks you can also
override the default and calculated settings with special values. To do this,
provide command-line overrides to
[ansible-playbook](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-playbook.html).
The most likely use-case for this is to download a custom product distribution
for testing, e.g. a Jira pre-release. If you are running `ansible-playbook`
directly, the command-line would look like e.g:
for testing (for example, a pre-release version of Jira). If you are running
ansible-playbook directly, the command for this would look like the following:
ansible-playbook \
-e atl_product_download_url=http://s3.amazon.com/atlassian/jira-9.0.0-PRE-TEST.tar.gz \
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ directly, the command-line would look like e.g:
\
-i inv/aws_node_local aws_jira_dc_node.yml
If you are using a CloudFormation template with places the stack details in
`/etc/atl`, the special variable `ATL_ANSIBLE_EXTRA_PARAMS` is added to the
`ansible-playbook` parameters in `bin/ansible-with-alt-env`. In this case you
would only need to set it to:
You can also do this on a CloudFormation template where the stack details are in
/etc/atl. On such templates, the variable `ATL_ANSIBLE_EXTRA_PARAMS` is added
to the `ansible-playbook` parameters in `bin/ansible-with-alt-env`. In this case
you need to set it to:
ATL_ANSIBLE_EXTRA_PARAMS="-e atl_product_download_url=http://s3.amazon.com/atlassian/jira-9.0.0-PRE-TEST.tar.gz -e atl_use_system_jdk=true -e atl_download_format=tarball"