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Managing WordPress with Ansible

David Murphy
December 04, 2015

Managing WordPress with Ansible

Slides from my talk at WordCamp US, December 2015

David Murphy

December 04, 2015
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  1. if you are going to do something more than once,

    automate it — me (and many others) 13 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  2. an abundance of choices: Ubuntu • Debian FreeBSD • OpenBSD

    • NetBSD Fedora • CentOS openSUSE • Slackware Gentoo • Arch Linux CoreOS 18 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  3. a plethora of choices: Bluehost • InMotion Hosting • DreamHost

    HostGator • WP Engine • GoDaddy Pagely • Media Temple DigitalOcean • Linode • Vultr Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure 22 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  4. Ansible is a powerful automation tool that you can learn

    quickly. 32 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  5. sample playbook --- - hosts: webservers remote_user: root tasks: -

    name: ensure apache is at the latest version yum: pkg=httpd state=latest - name: write the apache config file template: src=/srv/httpd.j2 dest=/etc/httpd.conf - hosts: databases remote_user: root tasks: - name: ensure postgresql is at the latest version yum: name=postgresql state=latest - name: ensure that postgresql is started service: name=postgresql state=running 42 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  6. yum - name: install the latest version of Apache yum:

    name=httpd state=latest - name: remove the Apache package yum: name=httpd state=absent - name: install the latest version of Apache from↩ the testing repo yum: name=httpd enablerepo=testing state=present - name: install one specific version of Apache yum: name=httpd-2.2.29-1.4.amzn1 state=present 44 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  7. template # Example from Ansible Playbooks - template: src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf↩

    owner=bin group=wheel mode=0644 # The same example, but using symbolic modes equivalent to 0644 - template: src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/file.conf↩ owner=bin group=wheel mode="u=rw,g=r,o=r" 45 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  8. service # Example action to start service httpd, if not

    running - service: name=httpd state=started # Example action to stop service httpd, if running - service: name=httpd state=stopped # Example action to restart service httpd, in all cases - service: name=httpd state=restarted # Example action to reload service httpd, in all cases - service: name=httpd state=reloaded # Example action to enable service httpd, and not touch↩ the running state - service: name=httpd enabled=yes 46 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  9. modules, modules, modules → command, get_url → apt, apt_key, apt_repository

    → digital_ocean, linode, ec2, gce, docker → irc, slack, hipchat, mail → mysql_db, mysql_user → git, subversion 47 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  10. famous 5-minute install1 → download/unzip → create database → edit

    config → upload 1 http://codex.wordpress.org/InstallingWordPress#Famous5- Minute_Install 51 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  11. a better example → install packages → create database, then

    database user → download/unzip → edit config → configure webserver → ensure webserver is running 52 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  12. first, some variables vars: db_name: wcus db_user: wcus db_password: correcthorsebatterystaple

    site_name: wcus.schwuk.com site_alias: wcus 53 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  13. install the packages - name: Install mysql-server apt: name=mysql-server state=present↩

    update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=3600 - name: Install apache2 apt: name=apache2 state=present - name: Install libapache2-mod-php5 apt: name=libapache2-mod-php5 state=present - name: Install php5-mysql apt: name=php5-mysql state=present - name: Install python-mysqldb apt: name=python-mysqldb state=present - name: Install python-httplib2 apt: name=python-httplib2 state=present 54 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  14. install the packages, take two - name: Install required packages

    apt: name: "{{ item }}" state: present update_cache: yes cache_valid_time: 3600 with_items: - mysql-server - apache2 - libapache2-mod-php5 - php5-mysql - python-mysqldb - python-httplib2 55 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  15. setup the database - name: Create WordPress database mysql_db: name:

    "{{ db_name }}" state: present - name: Create WordPress user mysql_user: name: "{{ db_user }}" password: "{{ db_password }}" priv: "{{ db_name }}.*:ALL" state: present 56 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  16. install WordPress - name: Create directory for WordPress file: path:

    /srv/{{ site_alias }} state: directory mode: 0755 - name: Get WordPress get_url: url: http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz dest: /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz - name: Extract WordPress unarchive: src: /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz dest: /srv/{{ site_alias }} copy: no 57 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  17. edit the config - name: Generate Keys and Salts uri:

    url: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ dest: /srv/{{ site_alias }}/keys.php creates: /srv/{{ site_alias }}/keys.php - name: Configure WordPress template: src: wp-config.php dest: /srv/{{ site_alias }}/wordpress/wp-config.php owner: root group: root mode: 0644 58 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  18. wp-config.php <?php define('DB_NAME', '{{ db_name }}'); define('DB_USER', '{{ db_user }}');

    define('DB_PASSWORD', '{{ db_password }}'); define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); define('DB_COLLATE', ''); include dirname( __FILE__ ) . '../keys.php'; $table_prefix = 'wp_'; define('WP_DEBUG', false); if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'); require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); 59 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  19. configure the webserver - name: Configure webserver template: src: apache-site.conf

    dest: /etc/apache2/sites-available/{{ site_alias }}.conf owner: root group: root mode: 0644 notify: - restart apache - name: Disable default site_alias command: a2dissite 000-default - name: Enable WordPress site command: a2ensite {{ site_alias }} 60 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015
  20. there's more than one way to do it — Perl

    community (and Larry Wall) 68 — David Murphy @ WordCamp US, December 2015