LEMP stack Ansible playbook

Playbook to deploy LEMP stack onto Ubuntu machine, and install Wordpress on it.

How to use

1. Create a Vagrant VM (optional)

If you have Vagrant installed, you can use the included Vagrantfile to create a VM for this project.

In the project directory run:

vagrant up

NOTE: Vagrant is configured to provision the machine with your ssh public rsa key, found in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

2. Inventory file

Playbook will deploy to the host aliased worker. You can update hosts.yml with your details.

No changes are necessary if you are using Vagrant VM from the previos step.

all:
  hosts:
    worker:
      ansible_host: 192.168.56.10
      ansible_user: vagrant
      ansible_become_pass: vagrant

3. Run playbook

Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml master.yml

It is going to:

• Install mysql and configure it with default user and wordpress database
• Install and configure nginx and php-fpm
• Download Wordpress and create wp-config.php

It is possible to skip different stages with tags, for example, to only download wordpress:

ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml --tags install_wp master.yml 

4. Proceed to wordpress installation

Wordpress will be accessible on port 80 on the worker machine.

If provisioned with Vagrant, site will be accessible at localhost:8080. Proceed to installation on http://localhost:8080/wp-admin/install.php.