collective.big.bang 1.0

Add-on which create Plone site into Zope

collective.big.bang

Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang! Hey!

So all started with the Plone site! Hey! This package it used to create Plone site when Zope is started (just before Ready to handle requests sentence).

You can use environment variables to create Plone site and choose package you would like to install. See “Environment variables”

Why not use collective.recipe.plonesite? The goal is to create Plone site when you deploy a new Plone on a contenerized env. We think it’s easy to create Plone site when you start it without entrypoint or without using and other command. It’s more simple in a contenerized environment that starting a buildout part to create a Pone site.

Fun fact:

This package is now called collective.big.bang instead of the original collective.bigbang, because collective.bigbang name was rejected by pypi naming package.

Environment variables

You can add environment variable into your buildout in instance part with “environment-vars”:

...
[instance]
...
environment-vars =
    PLONE_EXTENSION_IDS plone.app.caching:default,plonetheme.barceloneta:default
    DEFAULT_LANGUAGE fr
    ADMIN_PASSWORD mysuperpa$$w0rd
    ACTIVE_BIGBANG True
...

Or you can also use tools like direnv (.envrc file example):

export PLONE_EXTENSION_IDS=plone.app.caching:default,plonetheme.barceloneta:default
export DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=fr
export ADMIN_PASSWORD=mysuperpa$$w0rd
export ACTIVE_BIGBANG=True

PLONE_EXTENSION_IDS

A list of GenericSetup profiles to install. Default values are plone.app.caching:default,plonetheme.barceloneta:default

DEFAULT_LANGUAGE

The default language of the Plone site. Default value is en

ADMIN_PASSWORD

The password for the zope “admin” user. There is no default value, if variable is not set, admin password will not be updated.

ACTIVE_BIGBANG

Create a Plone site on this instance. This variable is used to avoid conflict error, this variable should be set to True to only one instance Default value is False

Features

• Create Plone site when Zope is started

Installation

Install collective.big.bang by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs +=
    collective.big.bang

...

[instance]
...
environment-vars =
    PLONE_EXTENSION_IDS plone.app.caching:default,plonetheme.barceloneta:default
    DEFAULT_LANGUAGE fr
    ADMIN_PASSWORD mysuperpa$$w0rd
    ACTIVE_BIGBANG True

and then running bin/buildout

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/collective/collective.big.bang/issues

• Source Code: https://github.com/collective/collective.big.bang

Support

If you are having issues, please let us know. We have a mailing list located at: [e-mail]

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

Contributors

• Benoît Suttor, [e-mail]

• Laurent Lasudry, [e-mail]

Changelog

1.0 (2022-03-01)

• Do not set “admin” password if ADMIN_PASSWORD env variable is not set. [bsuttor]

1.0b2 (2022-01-27)

• Ignore mountpoint configurations in site creation. [odelaere]

1.0b1 (2022-01-25)

• Added tests and better support for plone from 4.3 to 6.0. [odelaere]

1.0a3 (2021-10-04)

• Strip extension ids. [odelaere]

• Do not attempt to do anything if ACTIVE_BIGBANG id not True. [odelaere]

1.0a2 (2021-08-17)

• Fix package after renaming from collective.bigbang to collective.big.bang [laulaz]

1.0a1 (2021-08-13)

• Initial release. [bsuttor]