Build A LAMP Server With Ansible

Setting up a PHP server has always been a pain. After setting up the 149th server manually using the excellent Digital Ocean
community tutorials, it was time to automate the process.

I started with the Digital Ocean Ansible playbooks. Then I added some steps from My First 5 Minutes On A Server.

I wanted Ubuntu 20.04 support so I used multipass to bring up an Ubuntu VM in no time. Since it uses the macOS native hypervisor there was nothing more to install.

Now that things were looking up I decided to open source my efforts and made a project out of it.

PHP is installed via the Sury packages so they are up to date than the native repos.

Originally posted on my blog.

Comments

[Gayan Hewa]

Good stuff 👍, Ansible is just one unique tool that can be used for a myriad of things.

[Dilantha Nanayakkara]

Thanks @gayanhewa I'm just getting into Ansible after years of dabbling with fabfiles. Jeff Geerling's scripts helped me a lot.

[Gayan Hewa]

I have never used Fabfiles, will take a look.