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Ansible: Automate your WordPress deployments

Ansible is a framework for automating deployment and maintenance of remote systems. This tutorial will go through the creation of my own WordPress playbook for Ansible. You can find all of my WordPress playbooks in Github in my Playbooks repository. The Playbook The WordPress installer playbook I created is the wp_install.yml playbook. The playbook handles the installation and configuration of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress on top of an Ubuntu server (Tested on 22.

October 10, 2022 Read
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Ansible: Getting started

Ansible is an open-source tool for automating infrastructure and application deployment. I came across Ansible repeatedly while searching for a better way to manage my numerous bash scripts that I had been using for automating my deployments. Ansible allows for ‘infrastructure as code’(IAC) management techniques which in turn make systems more standardized and easier to manage. Why Ansible There are a number of IAC tools in circulation today, and I know I was overwhelmed with options when initially trying to select one to use.

October 3, 2022 Read