A base LAMP environment for PHP deployment using Ansible.
The base setup is borrowed from the Digital Ocean community ansible scripts and inspired by My First 5 Minutes On A Server by Bryan Kennedy.
You will need a local install of Ansible and shell access to the deployment server.
Installing Ansible on macOS with Homebrew.
brew install ansible
Depending on the script you are running you will need to install these ansible roles.
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.apache
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.apache-php-fpm
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.certbot
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.composer
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.mysql
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.php
ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.php-versions
hosts is an Ansible inventory file.
You will need a minimal of host_vars/hostname.yaml file like this to get going.
deploy_user: deploy
mysql_root_password: "super secret"
php_version: "7.4"You can use a hosts file like this if you have multiple hosts.
host1
host2
Then run your commands like this.
ansible-playbook -i hosts base.yaml
If you want to target a few hosts you can directly use hostnames from ~/.ssh/config like this.
ansible-playbook -i host1,host2 base.yaml
For a single host add a trailing command like this.
ansible-playbook -i host1, base.yaml
You can install in stages like this
ansible-playbook -i host1, base.yaml
ansible-playbook -i host1, mysql.yaml
ansible-playbook -i host1, apache.yaml
ansible-playbook -i host1, php.yaml
Or you can take run the LAMP script to combine the above like this.
ansible-playbook -i host1, base.yaml
ansible-playbook -i host1, lamp.yaml
There is another apache-php.yaml that only installs Apache with PHP. The base.yaml step is always required to be run first.
ansible-playbook -i host1, base.yaml
ansible-playbook -i host1, lamp.yaml
The certbot playboot is not used since it doesn't setup the Apache config files. This part is done manually using https://certbot.eff.org/
If you make any changes make sure you lint your Ansible playbooks.
ansible-lint base.yml
ansible-lint mysql.yml
ansible-lint apache.yml
ansible-lint php.yml
Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with the help of multipass.
If you are using multipass check their network troubleshooting section here https://multipass.run/docs
Personally I had to stop dnsmasq and add a nameserver 1.1.1.1 to the end of /etc/resolv.conf to get DNS working from inside the virtual machine.
sudo brew services stop dnsmasq