This Ansible project provides a comprehensive set of playbooks and roles for deploying and configuring a WordPress server, with most development done targeting an Ubuntu system.
- Ansible 2.9+
- Target servers running Debian/Ubuntu (preferred)or RHEL/CentOS
- SSH access to target servers
- Role dependencies installed via requirements.yml
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Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/wp-ansible.git cd wp-ansible -
Install required Ansible roles:
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.ymlThis will install all dependencies including PHP roles required by wp_cli.
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Update inventory and variables:
# Edit inventory/hosts to add your servers # Customize group_vars/all.yml for global settings # Create host_vars/your-server.yml for host-specific settings - User-specific configurations will respect the ansible_user you connect with - Automated WP-CLI updates via cron
Run the complete playbook:
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts site.yml
Target specific hosts:
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts site.yml -e "target_host=webservers"
Run specific tasks with tags:
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts site.yml --tags "nginx,php"
Secrets are provided via environment variables on the system where ansible-playbook is run. Here are the environment variables that are needed:
# Used for certbot and WordPress installations:
export ADMIN_EMAIL="[email protected]"
# Used for WordPress admin username:
export ADMIN_USER="username"
# WordPress admin user password:
export ADMIN_PASSWORD="your-random-password-here"
# WordPress database password. Append the site domain name to the
# variable to apply to specific site. Replace the "." with an
# underscore as seen in the example:
export WP_DB_PASSWORD_EXAMPLE1_COM="your-random-password-here"
export WP_DB_PASSWORD_DEV_EXAMPLE_COM="unique-random-password"