A basic LAMP stack environment that creates an environment for wordpress websites which is built using ansible roles. It consists of the following:

• Apache Webserver
• PHP 7.4
• MariaDB server
• Wordpress (latest)

• Ansible
• Ansible-galaxy
• SSH and key-based authentication from the ansible machine to the remote server.

mariadbroot_pw: "mysqlpass123" #-------database root password-------#
db_name: "wordpress"  #-------Wordpress database name-------#
db_user: "wordpress"  #-------WordPress username-------#
db_password: "wordpress"  #-------WordPress db password-------#
httpd_port: 80  #-------port for apache-------#
httpd_user: "apache" #-------apache user-------#
httpd_group: "apache"  #-------apache group-------#
domain_name: "wordpress.freeda-francis.tech"  #-------domain name-------#
wp_url: "https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz"  #-------WordPress download URL-------#

In this demo, we will be making use of 2 ansible roles - LAMP & WordPress.

• LAMP : In lamp role, we will be installing and configuring Apache, MySQL, PHP and its required dependencies.
• WordPress : In wordpress role, we will downloading the latest wordpress, extracting its contents and setting up the custom wp-config.php file to complete its installation.

1. Initially, create 2 roles - lamp & wordpress in the roles_path using the below command

ansible-galaxy init lamp
ansible-galaxy init wordpress

2. Get the contents of the roles - lamp & wordpress and place them in location 'roles_path' specified in the ansible config file (ansible.cfg).

3. Then, you can run the main.yml playbook using the command

ansible-playbook -i inventory main.yml

Once the above steps has been completed, your wordpress will be ready in the specified domain name.