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iwigo requires a MySQL database for its back-

end and has a number of extensions and plugins

developed by the community. You can install it on

any shared Web hosting service provider or install it on

your own GNU/Linux server. It basically uses the (G)

LAMP stack. In this article, we will use Ansible to install

and configure a Piwigo instance, which is released under the

GNU General Public License (GPL).

You can add photos using the Piwigo Web interface or use an

FTP client to synchronise the photos with the server. Each photo

is made available in nine sizes, ranging from XXS to XXL. A

number of responsive UI themes are available that make use

of these different photo sizes, depending on whether you are

viewing the gallery on a phone, tablet or computer. The software

also allows you to add a watermark to your photos, and you can

create nested albums. You can also tag your photos, and Piwigo

stores metadata about the photos too. You can even use access

control to make photos and albums private. My Piwigo gallery is

available at https://www.shakthimaan.in/gallery/.

Piwigo is Web based photo gallery software that is written in PHP. In

this tenth article in our DevOps series, we will use Ansible to install and

configure a Piwigo instance.

Linux

The Piwigo installation will be on an Ubuntu 15.04 image

running as a guest OS using KVM/QEMU. The host system

is a Parabola GNU/Linux-libre x86_64 system. Ansible is

installed on the host system using the distribution package

manager. The version of Ansible used is:

$ ansible --version

ansible 2.4.1.0

config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

configured module search path = [u’/home/shakthi/.ansible/

plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]

ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-

packages/ansible

executable location = /usr/bin/ansible

python version = 2.7.14 (default, Sep 20 2017, 01:25:59)

[GCC 7.2.0]

The /etc/hosts file should have an entry for the guest

DevOps Series

Using Ansible to Deploy a

Piwigo Photo Gallery