Re-provisioning server.yml question - does it destroy database?

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Hello,

I was reading the documentation Remote Server Setup for Trellis server provisioning and had a question. I have a WPMU network I have provisioned initially which contains about 400 websites. I added some more websites to the server environment.

ansible-playbook server.yml -e env=<environment>

Will performing this command delete my databases for my existing websites? Or is this meant to just add onto the existing configurations if they exist?

I want to make sure before running this so I don’t delete all my websites. If it does, what’s the preferred way to simply provision website additions to the nginx configuration?

Thanks

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It won’t affect your database at all. As it says on the page you linked:

Re-provisioning is always assumed to be a safe operation.

This means you can safely reprovision all day long. As an example, I often provision first without SSL, and then reprovision with SSL once DNS has propagated.

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Thanks so much man, I appreciate it

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Hi,

how can I make ansible to create a fresh new database i.e. in dev environment?